Educational Testing Service: A Repair Kit for Grading: 15 Fixes for Broken Grades.www.assessmentinst.com/ark-gnrland.html, $28 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Author Ken O'Connor O'Con·nor , Flannery 1925-1964. American writer whose novels Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960) and short stories, collected in such works as A Good Man Is Hard to Find contends that grades should reflect the quality of learning taking place, not merely the accumulation of points that students accrue To increase; to augment; to come to by way of increase; to be added as an increase, profit, or damage. Acquired; falling due; made or executed; matured; occurred; received; vested; was created; was incurred. over the course of a semester se·mes·ter n. One of two divisions of 15 to 18 weeks each of an academic year. [German, from Latin (cursus) s . He offers fixes for four common grading challenges: distorted achievement, low-quality or poorly organized evidence, inappropriate grade calculation, and making grades supportive of learning. Examples of the 15 fixes include organizing performance evidence by standard, reporting absences or work submitted late separately from the grade, and using only summative Adj. 1. summative - of or relating to a summation or produced by summation summational additive - characterized or produced by addition; "an additive process" evidence to determine grades. |
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