Beschreibung
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 learners dignity, recognizing that one persons judgment is not truth. Teaching students to self-assess, an important dimension of growth and maturity, is a significant feature of the book.
Autorenportrait
Selma Wassermann is Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Her books includeWhats the Right Thing to Do? (2019),The Art of Interactive Teaching (2017),This Teaching Life (2004),Teaching for Thinking Today (2009) andAn Introduction to Case Method Teaching: A Guide to the Galaxy (1994).
Inhalt
Introduction
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Whats Evaluation For?
Force of Habit
Whats 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: Its 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
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