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About this book
Teachers evaluate students' work constantly. It is a built-in part of the job of teaching. Yet, what is hardly acknowledged is the subjectivity and unfairness of evaluation. Although grades and marks have long been discounted as having any reliability or validity, they endure as real and exact measures of ability and performance. Not only are they specious, they have little or nothing to do with the important goal of evaluation – that is to provide feedback to learners that enables their subsequent growth. Evaluation Without Tears provides teachers with specific examples of how they might provide evaluative feedback to students that is enabling and affirming, rather than punishing, respectful of the learner and protective of the learner's dignity, recognizing that one person's judgment is not truth. Teaching students to self-assess, an important dimension of growth and maturity, is a significant feature of the book.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 What’s Evaluation for?
- 2 Marking and Grading: The Tail that Wags the Dog
- 3 A Case for Using Evaluative Feedback
- 4 Evaluative Feedback that Enables and Promotes Growth
- 5 Written Diagnostic Evaluative Feedback across the Curriculum
- 6 It’s All About How You Say It
- 7 Impediments to Good Diagnostic Judgment
- 8 Reporting to Parents
- 9 Students as Self-Evaluators
- 10 Institutional Changes toward Using Evaluative Feedback in Reporting to Parents
- 11 Evaluation as a Subversive Activity: What Can a Teacher Do?
- 12 Postscript: A Personal Odyssey
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author