Grading

I was influenced by the grading scale used by a blog by Martina Bex on assessment and grading.  I really love her reasoning and concepts!  However, as a colleague pointed out, a grading system like this won’t fly in my district because her have a strong emphasis on the unit test.  All grading systems must have a high stakes test grade.  I hashed it out with my colleague, crunching numbers (which was pretty funny – there’s a reason neither of us teach math).  We came up with this as possible categories for Spanish IV next year: 

• Writing 20%
• Speaking 20%
• Listening 15%
• Reading 15%
• Cumulative assessment 20%
• Work ethics 10%

I’ll check this with her and make sure I remember it correctly.  I know we wanted to place more emphasis on output than input (writing/speaking as output).  I also know that I wanted to emphasize that, although we have a “high stakes test”, it is not as important as actual demonstrated proficiency.  Work ethics would include participation and homework.

UPDATE: I still have to include a quiz grade as well for my Spanish II classes so their categories/weights will be:

• Quiz 20%
• Test 20%
• Work ethics 10%
• Proficiency:
  • Writing 15%
  • Speaking 15%
  • Listening 10%
  • Reading 10%

 

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