Assessment+Basics

Using the following as prompts: design your own assessment policy to be presented to your middle school/high school "class". This is Day One with a new group. Before getting up and presenting for evaluation, tell the Career Switcher class your subject matter and the grade level. Later, after each student/group presents, we will discuss each point.

1. How can grades be used as motivators? 2. Why do we grade? 3. What system is better? Weighted Grading? Total Points? 4. Can we go gradeless? 5. Are there assessments out there that are not grade based? 6. What do you think about greens for grades? 7. What about participation grades? 8. How much option should there be in choice of grades? 9. How much negotiation should there be in grades? 10. What do you think of gra​demongers? 11. How many points should there be off for misuse of commas? For misuse of semicolons? Not having administrative stuff taken care? 12. How do you grade behaviour? 13. what about quiz passes? extra credit? 14. What about the zero grade? 15. How much variance can there be on the same question by different teachers?

Past Cohort Answers AUTUMN 2012 1. Students who care will be naturally motivated - Grades equal graduation - grades as a feedback to students 2. Shows the students current status - grades as motivators - subtractive or additive 3. There is no differences between weighted grading or total points - total points give you the flexibility to add assignments 4. It is an ideal - as in transformative learning - drama as an example - becomes individualistic 5. Something that involves performance - spot checks - discussions/class participation 6. poop 7. Check mark [did it or did not] - used to encourage additional activity/motivation 8. Can use "choose your assignments/choose your grade 9. It allows the student into the educational process  10. The concept of equity, life is not fair, teaching as an art  11. Could be lightly tracked, varies depending on the lenth of the assignment, use red pen and green pen  12. Do you grade behavior? Giving additional assignments because of behavior? Don't we already grade behavior?  13. "Get out of jail free card" student still needs to be accountable for the missed material  14. Using 50% as a minimum grade, so there is not a "hole to crawl out of" 15. N/A (new item)