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Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment
Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment Barbara E. Walvoord and Virginia Johnson Anderson A Review by David Adams Walvoord, Barbara E. and Virginia Johnson Anderson. Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment . San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998. Grading is a powerful tool faculty use to communicate with their students, colleagues, and institutions, as well as external entities. The authors, through their personal experiences in the classroom and from listening to faculty from myriad institutions at workshops around the country, have found that teachers have spent nearly every day of *their+ teaching lives wrestling with the problems, the power, and the paradoxes of the grading system (xv). Effective Grading .. presents suggestions for making classroom grading more fair, more time-efficient, and more conducive to Learning (xvi).
The authors acknowledge that many accrediting agencies warn that ^you cant use grades for assessment _ and there are many problems that attend the grading system. ^ ut the grading process, when well employed by skillful teachers, can yield rich information about student learning _ (xvi-xvii). To make grading useful for departmental assessment:
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