On Grades and Grading: Supporting Student Learning through a More Transparent and Purposeful Use of Grades

Quinn, Timothy

ISBN 10: 1610489128 / ISBN 13: 9781610489126

Published by R&L Education, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On Grades and Grading: Supporting Student Learning through a More Transparent and Purposeful Use of Grades
• Publisher: R&L Education
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1610489128
• ISBN 13: 9781610489126
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Too often teachers and schools operate with grading systems that are vestiges of an antiquated educational model with little fresh thinking as to how grades affect student learning. In On Grades and Grading, Timothy Quinn addresses this problem head on, offering an in-depth and nuanced analysis of the purposes grades can serve, as well as their impact on student learning. Quinn takes a hard look at the three pedagogical purposes for grades – providing data about students, motivating students, and providing students with feedback on their work. He then goes on to address a number of specific and, at times, controversial grading related issues, including grade inflation, grading collaborative work, grading and failure, the grading of behaviors and dispositions, and the use of technology in grading. Educators will find both concrete strategies for improving their grading systems and policies and, perhaps most importantly, a rich resource for improving student learning. Ultimately, Quinn hopes to create a world in which students, parents, and teachers all pay more attention to learning and less to grades themselves.

About the Author

Timothy Quinn holds a B.A. from Amherst College, an Ed.M. from Harvard University, and is currently a candidate for an M.A. from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. Timothy has taught English and Moral Philosophy at a range of independent and international schools, most recently Westminster School (Simsbury, CT) and the University School of Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI), where he is currently the Assistant Head of Upper School.