Shenandoah Discuss 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 should 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:
   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

[Gabrielle Ryman]

demonstration of learning

[Tiffani Utz]

Student learning and knowledge

[Erika Richman]

Learning of content taught, not behaviors. 

[Pam Walker]

mastery and application of what the student knows

[Morgan Saeler]

Mastery of learning

[Annmarie Noonan]

A grade should represent learning.  

[Katie Rice]

Amount of content the student has mastered on that grade level. 

[Melinda Sparacio]

Student learning

[Robin L. Shrum]

Mastery of the content  ;)

[Chad Hensley]

A reflection of what the student has learned.

[Scott Schlentner]

What the level of mastery  they can demonstrate