Student Assessment and Grading

Student Assessment and Grading

Evaluation is the process through which teachers judge the quality of work, both their own and their students'. There are two types of evaluative strategies: Formative evaluations, which involve a continual stream of reflection and feedback, and allow the educator or student to continually adjust and improve their work while it's ongoing and summative evaluations, where feedback is gathered only after instruction has been completed. Both strategies are necessary to provide for effective curriculum assessment and student education. These days’ teachers are receiving many mixed messages about assessment. For example, teachers are encouraged to use a number of types of alternative assessments to guide instruction and monitor student thinking. Alternative assessments can take many forms, such as collaborative assignments, portfolios, and reflections. It can become very difficult for teachers to transfer all this information into a single letter grad...