Answers to Essential Questions About Standards, Assessments, Grading, & Reporting

What's wrong with grading on the curve? Why do some parents have concerns about standards-based grading and reporting? What is the difference between accommodations and modifications for exceptional and struggling students? This guide offers many brief, Q&A-style chapters covering common questions about grading. Separate sections are dedicated to standards, assessments, grading, reporting, and grading and reporting for exceptional and struggling learners. The book's reader-friendly writing style will appeal to parents and community leaders as well as teachers, administrators, curriculum and instruction specialists, board members, and policy makers. Guskey teaches educational psychology and Jung teaches special education at the University of Kentucky. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)