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7.2 Types of Grading and Grading System
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7.2 Types of Grading and Grading System
Letters to parents/guardians
Parent-teacher conferences
Portfolios
As already explained, a portfolio is a set of purposefully selected work, with commentary by student and teacher. Portfolios are useful for showing students' strengths and weaknesses, illustrating range of students' work, showing progress over time or stages of a project, teaching students about objectives/standards they are to meet.
Checklist of objectives
Letters to parents and guardians are useful supplement to grades. However, they have limited value as sole report because they are very time consuming to prepare, the accounts of weakness are often misinterpreted by parents and guardians, and they are not characterized as systematic nor cumulative.
Parent-teacher conferences are mainly used in elementary schools. This requires that parents of pupils come for a conference with the teacher to discuss the pupils' progress. Portfolios, when available, are useful basis for discussion. Such conferences are useful for a two-way flow of information an cooperation from the parents. They are, however, of limited value as a report because most parents do not come for such conferences.
In this system, the objectives of the course are enumerated. After such objective, the students' level of achievement is indicated. Outstanding, Very Good, Good, Fair or Poor. This is a very detailed reporting system and tends to be more informative for the parents and pupils at the same time. It is, however, also very time consuming to prepare. There is also the potential problem of keeping the list manageable and understandable.
Pass-fail
The pass or fail system utilizes a dichotomous grade system. Either a student has complied and reached certain standards, in which case he passes or he failed to do so and he gets a failing mark. This is popular in some courses in college. In fact, the pass-fail system should be kept to a minimum because it does not provide much information, students tend to work to the minimum, and in mastery learning course, no grades reflected until "mastery" threshold is reached.
Traditional letter-grade system
In the traditional letter grade system, students' performance are summarized by means of letters. Thus, A stands for excellent, C stands for average, D stands for needing improvement and an F as a failure. The traditional letter grade system is easy to understand but it is of limited value when used as a sole report because they end up being a combination of achievement, effort, work habits, behavior. As such, they become difficult to interpret and they do not indicate patterns of strengths and weaknesses.