- 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 should 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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What the level of mastery they can demonstrate
A reflection of what the student has learned.
Mastery of the content ;)
Student learning
Amount of content the student has mastered on that grade level.
A grade should represent learning.
Mastery of learning
mastery and application of what the student knows
Learning of content taught, not behaviors.
Student learning and knowledge