“Douglas Reeves has another winner in FAST Grading. With years of experience working with parents and educators, Reeves prepares schools to implement meaningful grading practices. The reproducibles and end-of-chapter reflection questions will be helpful for educators for years to come.”
—Matt Townsley
“FAST Grading takes the conversation about improving grading practices to the next level with hard-hitting rationale for rethinking archaic paradigms and shares proven strategies educators need to support this critical shift.”
—Cassandra Erkens
Author and Consultant, Anam Cara Consulting, Lakeville, Minnesota
“FAST Grading is more than a must-read; it is a must-read-then-act manifesto for implementing best grading practices. Douglas Reeves provides both the why and how to do just that.”
—Robert Eaker
Professor Emeritus, Department of Educational Leadership, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
In FAST Grading: A Guide to Implementing Best Practices, Douglas Reeves asserts that K–12 teachers, administrators, and school systems must review and reshape their grading practices to ensure they center on four essential criteria: (1) fairness, (2) accuracy, (3) specificity, and (4) timeliness. Reeves guides educators to embrace proven grading procedures that have the power to reduce failure rates, improve student discipline, encourage learning, and enhance morale.
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Director of Instruction and Technology, Solon Community School District, Solon, Iowa
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K–12 teachers, administrators, and school systems will: • Review the importance of fair, accurate, specific, and timely grading practices • Understand how to gain stakeholders’ support for grading reform, even when opinions differ • Study how improved grading practices can save teachers time • Consider the experiences of schools that tackled grading challenges • Reflect on grading practices and plan improvements using chapter exercises Visit go.solution-tree.com/assessment to download the free reproducibles in this book.
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• Learn about the five mistakes that educators often make that cause grading reform to fail
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