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A grade is an evaluative tool that teachers use to collect data on a student's mastery of content. This evaluation can be used as a way to determine what needs and interventions students may need to achieve mastery. Instruction can be adjusted to meet those needs.

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I don't want to write a novel here, but this is something that has been on my mind and troubling me for several years now. By pure definition, a numeric grade should demonstrate the percentage of mastery, on skills or content, a student has demonstrated on a particualr assessment. A 70 means that the student has mastered 70% of the selected criteria, a 90 means 90%, etc. My concern, however, is that the grades I assign do not accurately reflect this. A student that scores a 90 does not actually know 90% of what I want him to know, and a student who scores a 50 actually knows way more than 50% of what I need her to know.

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Grades are a summary of a student's mastery of the subject matter relative to the teacher's expectations.

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Grades are a way for the teacher to evaluate what the student understands. It gives an opportunity to re address material that is not understood.

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A grade is a result of assessed knowledge which identifies a students deficits and the possible need for reteaching or further intervention.

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A grade is a result of assessed knowledge which identifies a students deficits and the possible need for reteaching or further intervention.

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A grade should reflect the level of student progress toward mastery

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Grades help us teachers to identify the strengths and weaknesses of a student and gives the teacher a platform as to where to begin with regards to changing our plans of delivery. 

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Grades help us teachers to identify the strengths and weaknesses of a student and gives the teacher a platform as to where to begin with regards to changing our plans of delivery. 

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Student ability, focus, and understanding or lack of course work

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A grade to me is a representation of a students progress on a given unit of study.  It can vary from a daily grade that is skill based all the way up to a major grade that assesses mastery of  an entire unit of study.  

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A grade to me is a representation of a students progress on a given unit of study.  It can vary from a daily grade that is skill based all the way up to a major grade that assesses mastery of  an entire unit of study.  

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A grade is a way to verify growth in an area and where help is needed, or whether a student needs more rigor.

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A reflection of how a student is doing at that specific point
I grade regularly to see progress through a topic

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A grade should reflect the mastery of knowledge or a skill.

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Grades indicate what a student understands in regards to class standards, assignments, assessments, etc

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Grades are an assessment of what students understand. Grades should not be taken on the first day a target is taught but should be checked. Grades provide real time feed back to students and teachers.

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A grade is an accurate measurement and representation of a students mastery of a course's content.

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Grade is a measurement of the student learning performance.

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Indicator of effective instruction.

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A formative way to see if the students have learned the material

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A formative way to see if the students have learned the material

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A reflection of a student’s effort and progress or lack there of

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Reflection of what kids know.