Assesing Chapter 7

Assessing chapter 7 is about the different variables that grades can test. The chapter suggests that grades can test how well a student is at memorizing material or just how well they can take tests. The chapter also explains that students can find grading scales confusing, because a B grade in one class may match up to a D grade in another and that in an ideal world all teachers would standardize what it takes to get each grade. But sadly this isn’t an ideal world. The chapter goes on to explain that if we want to make good grades and assessments, then we must grade our students so that grades are a measure of learning.
As a group we found this chapter very interesting. We did come at the chapter in several different ways however. Some viewed it with shocking realization about their teaching methods, others looked at it as a way to better connect with the reading from previous chapters, and still others tried to look at the chapter through the eyes of our future students