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We have spent the past yoear on the book study for 15 Fixes with our school based administrators. This fall we are concenttrating on the principles of grading in our schools. It has been the practice for our schools to administer comprehensive final exams that "cover" all the course content from the beginning of the term to the end of the term. As we examine grading and assessment and the old practice of comprehensive fial exams, can you give some guidance as to how the summative assessment could loo? Does it have to be on the entire course or on the outcome that was currently learned?
As well, some schools still use the pracice of recommendations from final exams. Any suggestions as to how to explain this is not a good assessment practice?
Any guidance or thoughts would be appreciated.
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2009-07-07
cheryl bashutski |
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The
Grade
Doctor
says:
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It is appropriate have culminating assessment(s) for an entire course that requires
students to show they have acquired the enduring understandings and that they can bring
together their understanding from each of the units in the course. Culminating
assessment(s) should be appropriate to the learning goals of the course but usually
should provide opportunities for students to 'write, do and say' what they know,
understand and can do. This means a "comprehensive final exam" may be all or part of
the culminating assessment, but usually culminating assessment should include a
performance task. This approach should not be new to students as they should have
experienced a similar approach to culminating assessment for each unit of the course.
Recommendations are an administrative convenience and cannot be justified educationally
if the culminating assessment is a comprehensive, rigorous assessment of a course.
Cheryl, I hope this answers your questions. Please feel free to follow up if it doesn't.
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