Assessing: Chapter 9

Abstract:
This chapter mainly focused on ten approaches to avoid when you're differentiating assessment and grading. Several things mentioned pertaining to this are avoiding incorporating nonacademic things such as behavior and attendance into the final grade, giving students more than one attempt at mastering the content, avoiding witholding assistance, avoiding assessing students in a way that does not accurately show their mastery, avoiding group grades, and avoiding grading on a curve. Among several others, these are all important things to keep in mind as a good teacher.

Reflection:
Our group thought this chapter was pretty important. We agreed with a lot of things that it talked about. Several of us had the experience of our grade suffering because of a group grade (we would do the work, but somebody else would slack off and the overall group grade would be bad, which affects the final grade). We also liked the idea of avoiding recording zeros for work not done. A zero does a lot of damage to a grade and automatically handing them out for work not finished is not the best method of dealing with incomplete assignments.