- What is the purpose of grades? Please rank the following in order of what you think is the most important purpose of grades (1) to the least important purpose of grades (5)
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- Who should be the primary audience for the message conveyed in grades?
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- What percentage of a students grade should be based on participation?
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- What percentage of a student's grade should be based on attendance?
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- What percentage of a student's grade should be based on classwork?
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- What percentage of a student's grades should be based on behavior?
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- What percentage of a student's grade should be based on homework completion?
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- What percentage of a student's grade should be based on proficieny of learning goals and standards?
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- What percentage of a student's grade should be based on the effort they put in?
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- Are there any other elements that you use for grading other than the ones mentioned in questions 3-9? If so please them below.
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- Grades should reflect achievment of intended learning goals-whether the school is using a conventional, subject-based report card or a report card that represents these intendedd learning goals as standards.
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- The primary audiences for the message conveyed in grades are students and their parents, grading policies should aim to give them useful, timely, actionable information. Teachers, adminstrators, and other educators are secondary audience.
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- Grades should reflect a particular student's individual achievmenet. Group and cooperative skills are important, but they should be reflected elsewhere, not in an individual's academic grade.
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- Grading policies should be set up to support student motivation to learn. A student should never reach a place where there is no point doing any more work because failure is inevitable.
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