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Whatever his/her feeling about grades, nearly every teacher must give them. That's the rationale behind this straightforward texthelping prospective teachers tounderstandgrading and learn todo it well.Grading, Second Editioncontinues to be the resource staying true to its original intentto help current and future teachers begin to see themselves as competent graders. The text focuses on explaining how grades function in schools and schooling, and on developing skills in grading work and creating report cards. Based on current research and informed by the author's experience, the text is replete with detailed explanations, stories and illustrations, student work samples, sample report cards and other school artifacts, and references for further study. Organized into three major parts (Understanding Grading, Integrating Assessment and Instruction, and Combining Grades Into Marks for Report Cards), with the added encouragement of self-reflection at the onset and throughout, the text fully prepares current teachers and those working toward that goal to refine and perfect a simple, yet compelling function in the process of school, grading. New to the second edition: The text has been thoroughly updated and revisedto reflect the current events in educational assessment, legal issues, standards-based report cards, and references used throughout the text. Chapter Six combines the content from Chapters Six and Seven of the first edition, making the text one chapter shorter. Features revised information about standards-based report cardsand the growing interest in this movement which has increased since the publication of the first edition. Section on Legal Issuesfeatured in Chapter 2 has been completely rewritten to reflect the recent changes in education law.Susan M. Brookhart is the author of 'Grading (2nd Edition)', published 2008 under ISBN 9780132217217 and ISBN 013221721X.
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