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Grading Rigor in Counselor Education: A Specifications Grading Framework
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Bonner, Matthew W. – Educational Research Quarterly, 2016
According to accreditation and professional bodies, evaluation and grading are a high priority in counselor education. Specifications grading, an evaluative tool, can be used to increase grading rigor. This article describes the components of specifications grading and applies the framework of specifications grading to a counseling theories course.
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Grading, Student Evaluation, Difficulty Level
The Use of Behavioral Agreements by Senior Student Affairs Officers and Counseling Center Directors to Manage Student Mental Health Concerns and Minimize Threatening Behavior
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Geiger, Douglas – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This qualitative investigation examines the use of behavioral agreements by Senior Student Affairs Officers and Counseling Center Directors to manage student mental health concerns and minimize behavior that poses threats to campus communities. Six pairs of Senior Student Affairs Officers and Counseling Center Directors at the same institution…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Personnel Workers, Mental Health, Antisocial Behavior
How Did States in the Central Region Evaluate Supplemental Educational Services in 2007?
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Barley, Zoe; Wegner, Sandra K. – Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), 2009
In state needs assessment meetings held in late June 2008, the leadership of two Central Region state departments of education, South Dakota and Missouri, asked Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Central to determine how the states in the region evaluate their supplemental educational service (SES) providers. Specifically, these SEA staff…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, State Policy
A Unilateral Grading Contract to Improve Learning and Teaching
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Danielewicz, Jane; Elbow, Peter – College Composition and Communication, 2009
Contract grading has achieved some prominence in our field as a practice associated with critical pedagogy. In this context we describe a hybrid grading contract where students earn a course grade of B based not on our evaluation of their writing quality but solely on their completion of the specified activities. The contract lists activities…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Critical Theory, Grading, Instructional Improvement
Critical Pedagogy Is Too Big to Fail
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Shor, Ira – Journal of Basic Writing (CUNY), 2009
This essay responds to Jane Danielewicz's and Peter Elbow's recent piece on contract grading in "College Composition and Communication" (December 2009). I discuss the similarities of their approach to my own contract process, finding that we share a quantitative/performative method for grading. I also explore our differences. While they guarantee…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Writing (Composition), Grading, Stakeholders
Invisible Motivation of Online Adult Learners during Contract Learning
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Chyung, Seung Youn – Journal of Educators Online, 2007
In a face-to-face classroom, the instructor can easily diagnose students' motivational status by observing their facial expressions and postures, but such cues are absent in an online classroom. Therefore, online instructors often estimate students' motivational level based on their online behavior such as the number of messages they post, and…
Descriptors: Cues, Learning Strategies, Adult Learning, Adult Students