What are some philosophies and strategies of how to grade students that do not do the work in class and do not participate, but they get an A on the tests.
Should we move to a all performance grading system or should the students get dinged for not participating?
Please leave you ideas.
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I think you could grade participation and call it "daily graded work," meaning they completed your form of assessment for the class period, or not. The assessment could be an informal one, whether they completed an exit slip, for example. The daily graded work could be weighted at 25% so they still could pass the class, but at risk of receiving a middle C at best (if they did absolutely no daily work)...
ReplyDeleteI think it depends on whether you're doing an informal or formal evaluation. If it's informal then I usually don't see a grade attached to the performance. If it's formal, such as a presentation, then it should be graded. I like Regina's idea of performance based assessments, but how do we do it? Maybe we should just start experimenting with this format and see what happens.
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On NPR this morning there was a clip about Pittsburgh Public Schools' attempt to stop giving zeros as grades for non-participation. Instead non-participating students were given grades equating to 50% (eg, 5/10) for any assignments that they simply did not do.
ReplyDeleteOnce students figured out what was happening, the number who did not turn in assignments increased greatly.
Pittsburgh has now gone back to giving zeros for missing assignments!!
well in a class setting where we NEED to have discussion participation i think that we should give discussion grades. daily grades that judge whether they did or did not particiapate actively in the discussion.
ReplyDeleteWhy not give the grade on assessment only? Assessment could be a RAFT or performance activity as well as summative tests. My son is TAG and has a learning style that makes him very bored with assignments, etc. He can pass the tests without the work. He still does the work anyway, but is less motivated. He doesn't understand why he needs to do the "busy work". You could use assignments as a learning tool to be done in class (groups, etc.) and still motivate students to learn.
ReplyDeleteIn Pittsburgh, did they also include and element in the process that did not accept the student providing nothing? Usually when school makes this decision, they put an intervention system in place, like ZAP.
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