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This tackles the fallacies of marking and grading students' work and provides teachers with specific examples of how they might provide evaluative feedback to students that enables and promotes their subsequent growth on learning tasks.
List of contents
Introduction
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: What's Evaluation For?
Force of Habit
What's Evaluation For?
Chapter 2: Marking and Grading: The Tail that Wags the Dog
A House of Cards
Chapter 3: A Case for Using Evaluative Feedback
Evaluation as Feedback
Obstacles to Using Evaluative Feedback In Lieu of Grades
Chapter 4: Evaluative Feedback that Enables and Promotes Growth
Identifying the Criteria: What are we looking for?
What is Being Measured?
Learning Goals and Evaluation Practices
Chapter 5: Written Diagnostic Evaluative Feedback Across the Curriculum
Examples from the Primary Grades
Examples from the Intermediate Grades
Examples from Secondary School
Conclusion
Chapter 6: It's All About How You Say It
Reflecting in Action
Examining a Classroom Discussion
Hooked on Praise
Chapter 7: Impediments to Good Diagnostic Judgment
Taming the Impulse to Punish by Evaluative Judgment
Two Cents Worth of Advice to Teachers
Chapter 8: Reporting to Parents
Some examples of teachers' written reports
Parent-teacher-student conferences
Chapter 9: Students as Self Evaluators
Children Evaluating Themselves in the Primary Grades - The Child in the Process
Written Self-Evaluation Reports in the Primary Grades
Students Evaluating Themselves in a One-on-One Tutorial
Students Evaluating Themselves in the Secondary School
Teachers' Assessments on the Profiles
Conclusion
Chapter 10: Institutional Changes Toward Using Evaluative Feedback in Reporting to Parents
Examples of Schools that "Dare to Be Different"
Chapter 11: Evaluation as a Subversive Activity: What Can a Teacher Do?
Chapter 12: Postscript: A Personal Odyssey
A Professional Journey
References
Index
About the Author
About the author
By Selma Wassermann
Summary
This tackles the fallacies of marking and grading students' work and provides teachers with specific examples of how they might provide evaluative feedback to students that enables and promotes their subsequent growth on learning tasks.
Additional text
If you have read any of Dr. Selma Wassermann’s books, you can anticipate that Evaluation Without Tears will be beautifully written, well-constructed and designed to reach a significant audience. And this book is. Selma takes on any teacher who still uses measurement to rank or punish students for their work. She speaks of evaluation as feedback as well as to students as self-evaluators in all grades. Rich in examples, Selma’s book is delightfully lucid, and filled with passion. It is a great educational ride.
