Henry County Discussion Questions

[Scott Habeeb]

1. What's the Final Grade?
   You are seeing projected on the screen a collection of scored assignments.  Your job is to determine the student's final grade based on these scores.  You have complete freedom to determine how best to do that. You will choose a letter grade by visiting the following survey: 
   
   What's the Final Grade?
   
   
   
2. What does a grade represent? 
   (Answer this discussion question by typing in the "Reply to This" box at the bottom of this Forum.)
   When a student gets an A, or a B, or a C, or a D, or an F as a final grade on a report card or on a transcript, what does that mean?  And what should go into that grade - what should it be comprised of so that it means what you want it to mean?
    
3. Ideas for Leading an Assessment Journey
   
   Introduction to AFL:
   http://salemafl.ning.com/profiles/blogs/afl-article-in-virginia
   
   Discussion Starters for Faculty Meetings: 
   http://salemafl.ning.com/profiles/blogs/interactive-afl-faculty
   
   Trying and Failing, a key component of learning:
   http://salemafl.ning.com/profiles/blogs/afl-art-class-and-failure
   
   A Better Way to Review:
   http://salemafl.ning.com/profiles/blogs/an-afl-review-strategy-that
   
   Pick a Strategy and Try It Out:
   http://salemafl.ning.com/profiles/blogs/practical-examples-of-afl-to
   
   Take an Assessment "Course":
   http://salemafl.ning.com/group/scs-personalized-pd-module

[Elizabeth Motley]

Grades must be representative of what a student knows and can do.  What should go into the grades? Assessments of learning

[Jared A. Cotton]

A grade should represent the student's mastery of course content. It should not be based on compliance or citizenship. It should also indicate how well a student can apply what he or she has learned.

[Ben Boone]

Their ability and what the student knows for the standard and skill being covered.

[Sherri Gray Lewis]

A grade should represent what a student knows or can do - mastery level.

[Jo Ellen Hylton]

A grade should be an accurate reflection of how the student is performing based on the standard of learning expectation.

[Lisa Millner]

Learning
Mastery
Overall Understanding
Growth

[Tiffiny Martin Gravely]

Grades should represent what students know, understand, and can do. Grades should show a student's growth and mastery of content. 

[Luke Boone]

A grade represents a student's acquisition of content after opportunities for remediation. 

[Sue Ellen Townes]

We think a student's final grade should reflect what a student knows and can do. We still question how you can hold students accountable for citizenship/life skills.

[Joshua Bocock]

We want the "letters" to be a representation of different levels of proficiency students have achieved during the student's time in the class. We want that grade to be measures of assessments completed during the grading period.