PHILOSOPHY OF GRADING AND EVALUATION
AUTHOR: DAVIDSON OTIENO OMONDI 14.3 PHILOSOPHY OF GRADING AND EVALUATION 14.3.1 Introduction Grading philosophies vary with each teacher, each subject, each school and each education system. Students must be assessed and quite often. Letters and numbers should not be confused with authentic learning. Just because students receive an E doesn’t mean they didn’t learn. In turn, just because they received an A doesn’t mean they did everything. So, with that in mind, how do you grade? Many times, grading is done just to grade. This is done because students and parents are so programmed to equate success with percentages and letters that without a “grade” they don’t take the assignment seriously, but this normally results into meaningless grading, leaving no genuine way of providing evidence of actual student learning. 14.3.2 Grading and Grading Policies · Set policies guide on how learners are graded. Sometimes the...