- 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? - What does a grade represent?
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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?
- Ideas for Leading an Assessment Journey
Introduction to AFL:
https://salemafl.ning.com/profiles/blogs/afl-article-in-virginia
Discussion Starters for Faculty Meetings:
https://salemafl.ning.com/profiles/blogs/interactive-afl-faculty
Trying and Failing, a key component of learning:
https://salemafl.ning.com/profiles/blogs/afl-art-class-and-failure
A Better Way to Review:
https://salemafl.ning.com/profiles/blogs/an-afl-review-strategy-that
Pick a Strategy and Try It Out:
https://salemafl.ning.com/profiles/blogs/practical-examples-of-afl-to
Take an Assessment "Course":
https://salemafl.ning.com/group/scs-personalized-pd-module
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Grade should reflect mastery of content. Should not be defined by time. If they learn the content by the end of the course, this should be reflected in grading.
The grade should represent mastery of the learning.
A grade should truly reflect where students are in mastery of content.
Grading should represent the learning and growth.
A grade should reflect mastery. The grade is fluid not fixed. It's about learning not gotchas.
A student's grade should represent the level of mastery/competency achieved.