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Hacking Assessment
- 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School
- Narrated by: Holly Henrichs
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Categories: Education & Learning, Education
Summary
How to go gradeless - assessment that makes learning visible
"What's my grade? What's it worth? Is there extra credit? Is this for a mark?" It's time to shift the conversation and make learning visible. Now, you can easily stop reducing students to a number, letter, or any label that misrepresents learning and assessment in education. Now, you can help children see the value in every single assignment. Today, you can make assessment a rich, ongoing conversation that inspires learning for the sake of learning, rather than as a punishment or a reward. All you have to do is go gradeless.
Throw out your grade book tomorrow!
In Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School, award-winning teacher and world-renowned formative assessment expert Starr Sackstein unravels one of education's oldest mysteries: how to assess learning without grades - even in a school that uses numbers, letters, GPAs, and report cards. While many educators can only muse about the possibility of a world without grades, teachers like Sackstein are reimagining education. In this unique, eagerly-anticipated book, Sackstein shows you exactly how to create a remarkable no-grades classroom like hers, a vibrant place where students grow, share, thrive, and become independent learners who never ask, "What's this worth?"
Learn what formative assessment really looks like.
Summative assessment is typically an end-of-unit exam or standardized test, but what is formative assessment? Many teachers struggle with the concept. Hacking Assessment not only explains what formative assessment is, it provides blueprints for implementation and examples from educators around the world, who use this strategy successfully every day.
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- Dag Rune Kvittem
- 28-05-19
Great for developing a 21st century classroom.
Great tips for throwing grades away. Engaging stories and examples from the classroom. Going to read this one more time.
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- Miriam
- 17-05-17
User Friendly Tips for Going "Gradeless"
Practical tips on transforming teaching practice so focus is on student learning through mastery grading. Appreciate the step-by-step sound advice presented. Completely doable. Ready to, adopt, adapt and implement
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