The School Leader's Guide to Grading

O'Connor, an independent consultant specializing in grading and reporting and former teacher, department head, and curriculum coordinator, shows K-8 principals how to emphasize grading that supports learning and is accurate, meaningful, and consistent, as well as how to meet the standards of the National Association of Elementary School Principals. The book is a summary and reorientation of the ideas in his previous books, A Repair Kit for Grading and How to Grade for Learning, and includes samples of policies and procedures from schools and districts. He outlines the essentials of grading, the conditions needed, and how the factors of procedures, purpose, principles, practices, policy, practicality, and principals are involved. Chapters then emphasize how school is about learning, and describe how to monitor the accuracy of grades, why assessment must be standards-based, and how to be consistent through clear, criterion-referenced performance standards and policy and procedures. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)