 |
Home
| How It Works
| Stats
Login | Register |
|
Case: Unfair Assessment I have been a successful middle school teacher. I know it sounds strange when I call myself successful, but I have received recognitions at the school and county levels for the quality of my teaching. I have a big dilemma this year. I have two students who are not your ordinary students. Selena is a Hispanic student who is an English Language Learner, but her English proficiency is quite high. She fully participates in all class activities, she functions well in group and individual work, and she is always motivated. She is an ideal student. However, she never makes passing grades on tests. Her current grade is an F. Shelly is a White student. She shows no interest in course activities. You cannot even know if she listening or not most of the time. She chooses not to do group work. If I force her, she does not really contribute. She also does not turn in any assignments. What puzzles me is that she usually receives the highest grades in tests. Her current grade in my course is a high B. If she had turned in the assignments, her grade would be an A. The course grade in my class is determined mainly based on what students make on tests, because I feel that tests are the only means for me to know whether students have retained what they learned or not. Lately I have been thinking that my grading is not doing justice to Selena. At the same time, I think Shelly does not deserve a B with the attitude she has displayed. I need to revise my assessment system. Please help me with this. Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Selena may have test anxiety if she is continues to struggle on test I would try asking her the test questions orally under no stress so she doesn't even realize she is taking the test and see if she knows the answers. For Shelly you have to beat her at her own game. Get her zoned into class by letting her have a hand in things; make her the assistant and make her pass out papers or help kids with hands in the air when you are done lecturing. She will be involved and learning even more by helping people and maybe her grades will go up. |
||
Rating
|
||||||||||||||||||