Assessment and Grading
In Tools for Teaching, Barbara Gross Davis notes seven purposes for assessing student work:- To provide students with information on how well they are learning.
- To describe unambiguously the worth, merit, or value of the work accomplished.
- To improve the capacity of students to identify good work, that is, to improve their self-evaluation or discrimination skills with respect to work submitted.
- To stimulate and encourage good work by students.
- To communicate the teacher’s judgment of the student’s progress.
- To inform the teacher about what students have and haven’t learned.
- To select people for rewards or continued education. (1993, p. 282)
The following links will give you more specific information on how to carry out these principles.
Planning for Assessment
Classroom Assessment Techniques
Grading Student Work
Assigning Course Grades
References
Angelo, T. A., and Cross, K. P. (1993). Classroom assessment techniques:
A handbook for college teachers. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
Davis, B. G. (1993). Tools for
teaching. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
Walvoord, B., and Anderson, V. (1998). Effective grading: A tool
for learning and assessment. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.