How to Grade for Learning: Linking Grades to Standards

Ken O'Connor

SkyLight Professional Development, Jun 1, 2002 - 296 pages

"In How to Grade for Learning, Second Edition Ken O'Connor combines the thoroughness of a scholar with the pragmatism of a veteran educator as he explains the relationship among content standards, performance standards, assignments, assessments, and grades." -Jay McTighe, Author and Consultant Teachers will never look at grading the same way again. Ken O'Connor shows how to link grades and standards in this revised edition of the bestseller. The second edition updates his eight models to assist teachers in designing and conducting grading practices that help students feel more in control of their academic success. This comprehensive resource: Defines the purpose of each guideline Provides numerous examples Discusses and analyzes key elements Includes overviews of various grading programs and calculation strategies

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User Review  - Heather - Goodreads

This book provides a great overview of current best practice in grading and reporting.

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User Review  - Rebekah - Goodreads

Condesending and disrespectful tone. Plus nothing I wasn't already doing. :(

About the author

Ken O'Connor has been an independent consultant on assessment and evaluation from 1996 to present. He has been a staff development presenter and facilitator on assessment, grading and reporting in 33 states and 7 provinces and 5 countries outside North America. He was a keynote presenter at the EARCOS Teachers Conference in Bangkok in March 2003 and an institute presenter at AISA conferences in Cameroon, Tanzania and Zimbabwe in October 2005. His teaching career included experience as a geography teacher and department head at L'Amoreaux C.I. and Maplewood High School in Scarborough, Ontario, 1976-90, and teaching at four schools in Toronto and Melbourne, Australia (Grade 7 - 12) starting in 1967. Ken was a Curriculum Coordinator responsible for Student Assessment and Evaluation for the Scarborough Board of Education and then the Toronto District School Board from March 1990 to June 1999. He has also worked as a consultant on Secondary Assessment at the Ontario Ministry of Education.

His major extra-curricular interest is field hockey, as a player, umpire and coach. As a coach, three of his players went on to represent Canada in the Olympics. He also umpired at the 1984 Olympic Games and the 1990 World Cup.

Bibliographic information

• Title: How to Grade for Learning: Linking Grades to Standards
• Author: Ken O'Connor
• Editor: Ken O'Connor
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: SkyLight Professional Development, 2002
• ISBN: 1575178168, 9781575178165
• Length: 296 pages
• Subjects: Education; Education - Standards; Education / Administration / General; Education / Evaluation & Assessment; Education / General; Education / Testing & Measurement; Education/ Standards; Grading and marking (Students)