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Grades and Grading Practices : Obstacles to Improving Education and to Helping At-Risk Students
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ISBN: 0398084297 9780398084295 Year: 2003 Publisher: Springfield : Charles C Thomas,

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This second edition of Grades and Grading Practices not only contains updated and refreshed material on the problems caused by our current grading system, it also provides two additional chapters dealing with the present issues on assessment, standards, and social promotion. Designed to assist teachers, instructors, curriculum persons, and administrators who desire to implement cooperative thinking and problem-solving skills into the existing grading practices, this book calls attention to the obstacles that have been created. While poor grades may nudge some students to better performance, th


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Situating Portfolios
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ISBN: 0874213398 0585027668 0874212200 9780874213393 9780585027661 9780874212204 Year: 1997 Publisher: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press,

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Yancey and Weiser bring together thirty-one writing teachers from diverse levels of instruction, institutional settings, and regions to create a stimulating volume on the current practice in portfolio writing assessment. Contributors reflect on the explosion in portfolio practice over the last decade, why it happened, what comes next; discuss portfolios in hypertext, the web, and other electronic spaces; and consider emerging trends and issues that are involving portfolios in teacher assessment, faculty development, and graduate student experience.Contributors include Peter Elbow and Pat Belan

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