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No More Shopping for Grades at B-mart: Re-establishing Grades as Indicators of Academic Performance.
Peer reviewedStanley, Gregory; Baines, Lawrence – Clearing House, 2001
Discusses three steps to help legitimize grades as true measures of student success: eliminating superfluous inflationary pressures on grades; having expert teachers offer frank assessments of student progress (and stop teaching to the test) and give teachers authority over grades and the power to dismiss students who cannot or will not do the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade Inflation, Grades (Scholastic), Grading
Peer reviewedStanley, Gregory; Baines, Lawrence – Clearing House, 2004
The report card grade has come to serve a variety of purposes: (1) Substantiation for state funding; (2) A public relations opportunity to help generate positive feelings between a school and the community; (3) A vehicle used by the teacher to increase a student's self-esteem; (4) An opportunity to reward a student's likability; and (5) A chance…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Teacher Expectations of Students, Grades (Scholastic), Report Cards
