Grading is a powerful tool faculty use to
communicate with their students, colleagues, and institutions, as well as
external entities. The authors, through
their personal experiences in the classroom and from listening to faculty from
myriad institutions at workshops around the country, have found that teachers have
“spent nearly every day of *their+ teaching lives wrestling with the problems,
the power, and the paradoxes of the grading system” (xv). “Effective Grading . . . presents suggestions
for making classroom grading more fair, more time-efficient, and more conducive
to learning” (xvi).
Letter Grades
With the letter grade system, students
can receive A, B, C, D or F grades. Letter grades are usually calculated with a
nine or 10-point range assigned to each letter. A is the highest grade,
associated with 90 percent accuracy or higher and F grade is given for a performance with 59
percent accuracy or less.
4.0 Grading Scale
The 4.0 grading scale is another common
type of grading, often used in conjunction with letter grades. This scale
typically is used in high schools and colleges, as a means to calculate a Grade
Point Average (GPA)
Mastery Grading
A new trend in grading systems is
mastery, Rick Wormeli writes in his book, "Fair Isn't Always Equal."
Many school systems, in kindergarten through 12th grade, are moving away from
the sometimes-subjective traditional grading systems toward the more concrete
mastery grade systems.
For
example:
Schools ad collages. They use Letter grade system. They give grades
according to what student has got marks.
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