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Professional Resources: Grading and Equity Resources

Collected Professional Resources for Faculty and Staff

2021 PLC (Professional Learning Communities) Book list
Library Catalog list of book choices for 2021-2022 PLC discussion groups centered on equity in education.
Equity and Grading Reform - Resource List [Library Catalog]
All books listed below, in the LIbrary Catalog

Books in the Library

PLC Books 2021

Grading for Equity

PLC 2021

Not Light, but Fire

PLC 2021

Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain

PLC 2021

Equity by Design

PLC 2021

Selected books on Grading

On Your Mark

Making Grades Matter

How to Grade for Learning

We Got This! Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be

Assessments and Instruction

Hacking Assessment

Creating the Opportunity to Learn

Assessment and Grading in the Differentiated Classroom

Rethinking Homework

Web Articles

Equality vs. Equity

Grading Policies

Schinske, Jeffrey, and Kimberly Tanner. “Teaching More by Grading Less (or Differently).
CBE life sciences education vol. 13,2 (2014): 159-66. doi:10.1187/cbe.cbe-14-03-0054
more...less...
a history of grading and review the literature regarding the purposes and impacts of grading.
Grades are Capitalism in Action. Let's Get Them Out of Our Schools. (Op-Ed) [TruthOut.org]
How Teachers Are Changing Grading Practices With an Eye on Equity - Katrina Schwartz [MindShift KQED]
Author Interview With Rick Wormeli: 'Fair Isn't Always Equal' [Education Week]
How to Help Students Focus on What They’re Learning, Not the Grade - Sarah Schroeder [Edutopia]
Zoeckler, Laurence G. "MORAL ASPECTS OF GRADING: A STUDY OF HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS"
AMERICAN SECONDARY EDUCATION 35(2) SPRING 2007
How Teachers Can Create an Equitable Grading System -- Jennifer Gunn [Resilient Educator]
Beyond standards-based grading: Why equity must be part of grading reform - Joe Feldman [Phi Delta Kappan]
Building More Inclusive Communities with Grading for Equity -- Joe Feldman [NAIS]

Late Work

No-Zeroes

Do No-Zero Policies Help or Hurt Students? - Emelina Minero [Edutopia]
No-zero policies spur serious—and productive—debate among teachers. We look at the big insights on both sides of the argument.
CORRECTING VARIABLE GRADING POLICIES CAN TRANSFORM AN ENTIRE SCHOOL [NASSP]
Joe Feldman for the National Association of Secondary School Principals

Standards and Mastery Based Grading

Grading for Mastery, not Mystery [ASCD]
Gearing up for FAST grading and reporting [Phi Delta Kappan]
"Vocal and Vehement: Understanding Parents‘ Aversion to Standards-Based Grading" [ResearchGate]
October 2016, International Journal of Social Science Studies 4(11)
"Mastery Learning" (Block 1976) - VIA JSTOR
James H. Block and Robert B. Burns.
Review of Research in Education
Vol. 4 (1976), pp. 3-49 (47 pages)
Published By: American Educational Research Association.
One of the first modern papers to propose Mastery-based education.
more...less...
Access with your Multnomah County Library Card.
"How to Set Up Mastery-Based Grading in your Classroom" [Cult of Pedagogy]

All Feldman

Joe Feldman is the name most connected to the concept of "Grading for Equity".

Beyond standards-based grading: Why equity must be part of grading reform - Joe Feldman [Phi Delta Kappan]
Building More Inclusive Communities with Grading for Equity -- Joe Feldman [NAIS]
Feldman, Joe. "CORRECTING VARIABLE GRADING POLICIES CAN TRANSFORM AN ENTIRE SCHOOL."
Principal Leadership, vol. 19, no. 4, Dec. 2018. Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete.Accessed 2 Dec. 2020.
Feldman, Joe. “Beyond Standards-Based Grading: Why Equity Must Be Part of Grading Reform.”
Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 100, no. 8, May 2019, pp. 52–55. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1177/0031721719846890.
Resources: Grading for Equity

Database Articles

Reminder: Database Passwords are HERE

Library Database Passwords
Usernames and Passwords for Library Databases.
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EBSCO Databases

Cox, Keni Brayton. “Putting Classroom Grading on the Table: A Reform in Progress.”
American Secondary Education, vol. 40, no. 1, Fall 2011, pp. 67–87. EBSCOhost,
Feldman, Joe. “Beyond Standards-Based Grading: Why Equity Must Be Part of Grading Reform.”
Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 100, no. 8, May 2019, pp. 52–55. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1177/0031721719846890.
Feldman, Joe. “Taking the Stress Out of Grading: Now More than Ever, We Need to Take Steps to Reduce Students’ Anxiety about Grading (While Improving Their Learning). Will We?”
Educational Leadership, Sept. 2020, pp. 14–20. EBSCOhost,
Guskey, Thomas R. “BREAKING UP THE GRADE: To Make Grading More Meaningful, Course Grades Should Reflect a Range of Distinct Criteria That Make up Student Learning.”
Educational Leadership, Sept. 2020, pp. 40–46. EBSCOhost,
Reeves, Douglas, et al. “What’s Worth Fighting Against in Grading?”
Educational Leadership, vol. 74, no. 8, May 2017, pp. 42–45. EBSCOhost.
Sadler, D.Royce. “Grade Integrity and the Representation of Academic Achievement.”
Studies in Higher Education, vol. 34, no. 7, Nov. 2009, pp. 807–826. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/03075070802706553.
Standards-Based Grading.
Spencer, Kyle. Education Digest. Nov2012, Vol. 78 Issue 3, p4-10. 7p

GALE Databases

Feldman, Joe. "CORRECTING VARIABLE GRADING POLICIES CAN TRANSFORM AN ENTIRE SCHOOL."
Principal Leadership, vol. 19, no. 4, Dec. 2018. Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete.Accessed 2 Dec. 2020.
Fencl, Heidi S. "Focusing on Learning as a Marker of Success for Underrepresented Students."
Journal of College Science Teaching, vol. 48, no. 5, May-June 2019, p. 6+. Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete. Accessed 2 Dec. 2020.

JSTOR Articles

Use your Multnomah County Library Card* to access these articles.

*Which you qualify for as a Teacher in the County, and can apply for immediate online access.

Wormeli, Rick. Accountability: Teaching Through Assessment and Feedback, not Grading
American Secondary Education
Vol. 34, No. 3 (Summer 2006), pp. 14-27 (14 pages)
Published By: Dwight Schar College of Education, Ashland University