Publisher's Synopsis
"Grading is an integral measure to guide students' continued performance and learning. Traditional systems of grading have grown skewed as academic performance has become equated with high point accumulation. In Pathways to Proficiency: Implementing Evidence-Based Grading, Second Edition, authors Anthony R. Reibel, Troy Gobble, Mark Onuscheck, and Eric Twadell propose and encourage the adoption of evidence-based grading, which refocuses assessment on the efforts and products students make in class. Through their five-stage plan of implementation, the authors offer step-by-step guidelines, integral considerations, and illustrative examples by which teachers may plan and effect a successful committed transition to evidence-based grading. By incorporating such a grading system, teachers and students alike may benefit from clearer communication of performance goals and expectations, and students may more effectively measure and understand t
