Having just finished grading a small writing sample from my English 1 Support students (those students who we’ve identified through test scores and grades as in need of a little extra for them to make it through English 1), I figured I’d share how I did this first one and welcome any evaluation of my method.<\/p>\n
I struggled with how to grade this. Since this class counts as an elective and not an English class, and since so much of the point of this class is tied up in letting the students see success here so they will see success elsewhere, I decided to let the number of errors do the work:<\/p>\n
| # of errors<\/td>\n | % earned<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 0<\/td>\n | 100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1-2<\/td>\n | 90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 3-4<\/td>\n | 80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 5-7<\/td>\n | 70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 8-10<\/td>\n | 60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 11+<\/td>\n | 50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n At the top of the paper, I’ve written whichever of the following presented themselves as problems in the paper: punctuation, spelling, capitalization. On Tuesday, they’ll work on a rewrite. I’ll also share the above scale so students will have a good idea the number of errors I saw. Hopefully, with awareness of the areas that were problematic, knowing the number of errors, and a few days’ distance from their writing, they’ll be able to fix a few things. I also hope that a lot of what I saw was simply sloppy writing as opposed to lack of knowledge.<\/p>\n Can I Get A Remedy?<\/h4>\nGrades are posted. I have a host of problems using this method and only a few solutions in my head right now. I want to see what you think about this. Remember, this is a class full of students who scored one to two years below grade level. As freshmen, they are with me if they’ve demonstrated familiarity with seventh or sixth grade standards; those that demonstrated familiarity with eighth grade standards went on to English 1 and those at fifth grade or lower are in READ 180. So how do I grade their writing? How do I grade any of their work? Does the fact that this class counts for elective credit have any impact?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Having just finished grading a small writing sample from my English 1 Support students (those students who we’ve identified through test scores and grades as in need of a little extra for them to make it through English 1), I figured I’d share how I did this first one and welcome any evaluation of my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[53,19,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddseal.com\/rodin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddseal.com\/rodin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddseal.com\/rodin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddseal.com\/rodin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddseal.com\/rodin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddseal.com\/rodin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddseal.com\/rodin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddseal.com\/rodin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddseal.com\/rodin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |