[Year 12 SofDev] Back to basics - The theory of grading

[Mark]

Hi red-penners*

Apologies for the crosspost, but you're all teachers and you all have to
evaluate students one way or another.

This may be useful for newbie chalkies**. It quickly covers the different
classical assessment paradigms.

*https://www.wired.com/2017/04/think-know-grades-heres-really-work/
<https://www.wired.com/2017/04/think-know-grades-heres-really-work/>*

Note - It does not cover the famous 'Stair Assessment Technique' (SAT)
whereby a teacher stands atop a staircase and throws the students' outcomes
into the air.
First-step landings are an 'A'. Outcomes landing on the second step are a
'B'. etc.
(This evaluation methodology is rarely covered in Dip.Ed. courses any more.
Sigh.)

Mark

* Are teachers still allowed to mark students' work in red pen, or is that
now considered 'hostile'?

** Chalk? Well, young one, sit down and I tell you a story of the old days
where there were these things called 'blackboards' (hehehe, yeah, not
whiteboards!) and...

True story: when I was in grade 3 or so I told my mother that the
blackboard at school looked green. She took me to an eye doctor. It turned
out blackboards *were* black in her day. In mine they *were* greenish. Now
they're *white*. For heaven's sake, people. When will this nonsense ever
end? Why can't we go back to the good old times when we used red ochre on
cave walls for hunting lessons?

-- 

Mark Kelly

mark at vceit.com
http://vceit.com

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