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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781620362426
- Subject Area
- Education
- Publication Name
- Specifications Grading : Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time
- Publisher
- Stylus Publishing, LLC
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Higher, Testing & Measurement, Teaching Methods & Materials / General
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Weight
- 8.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 184 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Stylus Publishing, LLC
ISBN-10
1620362422
ISBN-13
9781620362426
eBay Product ID (ePID)
202450922
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
184 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Specifications Grading : Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time
Publication Year
2014
Subject
Higher, Testing & Measurement, Teaching Methods & Materials / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Education
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight
8.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2014-020284
Reviews
Time is precious, and achieving high academic standards is essential for our students. Linda Nilson has given us a thorough review of grading practices and created spec grading, which holds promise both for saving some time for faculty and students and for elevating our standards for student learning outcomes. Brava!, What a ridiculously simple yet profound plan for achieving what Nilson purports. Imagine, students demonstrating mastery of skill for a grade! Students taking back ownership of their progress! Students becoming our clients rather than our customers! Specs Grading, get ready to sashay in and partner up with the outcomes that grades should really reflect., 'Faculty who struggle with the challenges of managing time for grading student work and collecting meaningful assessment data from assignments and projects embedded in their courses will find much to interest them in Specifications Grading . Nilson proposes a new approach to rubrics that simplifies the task of grading, maintains standards for consistency and validity of assessments, and aligns grades with specific learning outcomes. Specifications grading addresses a question that has long puzzled faculty: Why aren't the grades earned by students accepted as assessments of student learning? Nilson presents models for grading assignments and models for combining assignments within a course to document the degree to which students attain competencies expected of all students in the course. She describes class grading structures that enable faculty to create learning-centered learning environments that motivate students, document student attainment of intended learning outcomes, and generate a traditional range of grades to recognize and document the achievements of students who exceed learning expectations for the course.', Her latest book, Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time , is maybe the most innovative, provocative, and potentially revolutionary one she's done. Therefore I'm making a commitment to dropping traditional grading systems cold-turkey and adopting specs grading in both my classes next semester. Those classes are well-suited for this system: a second-semester abstract algebra course, and the second semester of Discrete Structures for Computer Science. I don't know exactly how it's going to look yet or how it's going to work. But I think I need to do this, if I want to have the kind of classes to which I aspire and which I want to provide for my students., Faculty who struggle with the challenges of managing time for grading student work and collecting meaningful assessment data from assignments and projects embedded in their courses will find much to interest them in Specifications Grading . Nilson proposes a new approach to rubrics that simplifies the task of grading, maintains standards for consistency and validity of assessments, and aligns grades with specific learning outcomes. Specifications grading addresses a question that has long puzzled faculty: Why aren't the grades earned by students accepted as assessments of student learning? Nilson presents models for grading assignments and models for combining assignments within a course to document the degree to which students attain competencies expected of all students in the course. She describes class grading structures that enable faculty to create learning-centered learning environments that motivate students, document student attainment of intended learning outcomes, and generate a traditional range of grades to recognize and document the achievements of students who exceed learning expectations for the course., Linda Nilson has created a compelling and inclusive justification for how we got to where we are and what does not work with our current approach to grading. She paints a promising vision for our pathways into a future in which learning can become the real measure of academic currency., This book will change your life! Every instructor should buy it now. Nilson shows us how to make grading easier, more logical, and more consonant with research on learning and motivation. A practical, time-saving, student-motivating system of grading. A major advance in our thinking about how we grade and how students learn., 'As an undergraduate, I often thought, 'After this course is over, I will learn the material,' feeling that traditional grading got in the way of my learning. Specifications Grading offers a practical alternative that increases student motivation to learn, self-direction, and mastery, while reducing grading time, grade grubbing, and student anger at constructive criticism. With myriad examples throughout, Specs Grading demonstrates how to make grading learning-centered, aligned with student-achieved learning outcomes, and civil.', Her latest book, Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time , is maybe the most innovative, provocative, and potentially revolutionary one she's done., As an undergraduate, I often thought, 'After this course is over, I will learn the material,' feeling that traditional grading got in the way of my learning. Specifications Grading offers a practical alternative that increases student motivation to learn, self-direction, and mastery, while reducing grading time, grade grubbing, and student anger at constructive criticism. With myriad examples throughout, Specs Grading demonstrates how to make grading learning-centered, aligned with student-achieved learning outcomes, and civil., 'Linda Nilson has created a compelling and inclusive justification for how we got to where we are and what does not work with our current approach to grading. She paints a promising vision for our pathways into a future in which learning can become the real measure of academic currency.'
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
378.1/6620973
Table Of Content
FOREWORD Claudia J. Stanny PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. THE NEED FOR A NEW GRADING SYSTEM 2. LEARNING OUTCOMES AND COURSE DESIGN 3. LINKING GRADES TO OUTCOMES 4. PASS/FAIL GRADING FOR RIGOR, MOTIVATION, AND FACULTY PEACE OF MIND 5. ESSENTIALS OF SPECIFICATIONS GRADING 6. CONVERTING SPECS-GRADED STUDENT WORK INTO FINAL LETTER GRADES 7. EXAMPLES OF SPECS-GRADED COURSE DESIGNS 8. THE MOTIVATIONAL POWER OF SPECS GRADING 9. DEVELOPING A COURSE WITH SPECS GRADING 10. AN EVALUATION OF SPECS GRADING REFERENCES ABOUT THE AUTHOR INDEX
Synopsis
In her latest book Linda Nilson puts forward an innovative but practical and tested approach to grading that can demonstrably raise academic standards, motivate students, tie their achievement of learning outcomes to their course grades, save faculty time and stress, and provide the reliable gauge of student learning that the public and employers are looking for. She argues that the grading system most commonly in use now is unwieldy, imprecise and unnecessarily complex, involving too many rating levels for too many individual assignments and tests, and based on a hairsplitting point structure that obscures the underlying criteria and encourages students to challenge their grades. This new specifications grading paradigm restructures assessments to streamline the grading process and greatly reduce grading time, empower students to choose the level of attainment they want to achieve, reduce antagonism between the evaluator and the evaluated, and increase student receptivity to meaningful feedback, thus facilitating the learning process - all while upholding rigor. In addition, specs grading increases students' motivation to do well by making expectations clear, lowering their stress and giving them agency in determining their course goals. Among the unique characteristics of the schema, all of which simplify faculty decision making, are the elimination of partial credit, the reliance on a one-level grading rubric and the "bundling" of assignments and tests around learning outcomes. Successfully completing more challenging bundles (or modules) earns a student a higher course grade. Specs grading works equally well in small and large class settings and encourages "authentic assessment." Used consistently over time, it can restore credibility to grades by demonstrating and making transparent to all stakeholders the learning outcomes that students achieve. This book features many examples of courses that faculty have adapted to spec grading and lays out the surprisingly simple transition process. It is intended for all members of higher education who teach, whatever the discipline and regardless of rank, as well as those who oversee, train, and advise those who teach. Specification grading promotes the following values and outcomes. It: 1. Upholds High Academic Standards 2. Reflects Student Attainment of Skills and Knowledge 3. Motivates Students to Learn and to Excel 4. Fosters Higher-Order Cognitive Development and Creativity 5. Discourages Cheating 6. Reduces Student Stress 7. Makes Students Feel Responsible for Their Grades 8. Minimizes Conflict Between Faculty and Students 9. Saves Faculty Time and Is Simple to Administer 10. Makes Expectations Clear and Simplifies Feedback for Improvement 11. Assesses Authentically 12. Achieves High Inter-Rater Agreement, This book features many examples of courses that faculty have adapted to spec grading and lays out the surprisingly simple transition process. It is intended for all members of higher education who teach, whatever the discipline and regardless of rank, as well as those who oversee, train, and advise those who teach., In her latest book Linda Nilson puts forward an innovative but practical and tested approach to grading that can demonstrably raise academic standards, motivate students, tie their achievement of learning outcomes to their course grades, save faculty time and stress, and provide the reliable gauge of student learning that the public and employers are looking for.
LC Classification Number
LB2368.N55 2015
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