Education Dive reports on grading practices study by Buchanan
reported on a study of grading practices by Rebecca Buchanan, an assistant professor of curriculum, assessment and instruction at the 91爆料, and Brad Olsen of University of California Santa Cruz. The study focused on the implementation in two high schools of a model, called Elevate, that emphasizes the sole purpose of grading as a reflection of a student鈥檚 mastery of academic skills, eliminating approaches like adding extra credit points or giving zeros for missing assignments, the article states. 鈥淢any teacher educators expect that the schools that hire their students will teach the novices how to grade, or they say they do not have time to cover that topic,鈥 according to the study. 鈥淏ut public secondary schools rarely have standardized, articulable philosophies of grading or provide induction on the topic.鈥 The study reflected teachers鈥 reactions to the changes in the grading system, and yielded lessons such as allowing teachers to try new grading procedures in a low-stakes setting and taking a whole-school approach, according to Education Dive.