High-Stakes Grades and Student Behavior

The Impact of High-Stakes Testing in Chicago on Student Achievement in Promotional Gate Grades

STANDARDS and accountability policies have become increasingly popular strategies among school reformers. In 1984, South Carolina became the first state to introduce a school performance incentive program where schools are ranked on the basis of student test scores and top schools receive financial rewards (Clotfelter & Ladd,1996). Since then many states and districts have implemented policies,...

Correlation between Student Evaluation of Teaching and Students’ Grades

Abstract Introduction: Recognizing effective factors in student evaluation of teaching can reveal the strengths and weaknesses of this method of teacher evaluation and provide the possibility for better planning and obtaining authentic results. This study was carried out to determine the correlation between teacher evaluation results and students’ Grade Point Average (GPA) in Jundi-shapoor U...

Using Low-Stakes Quizzing for Student

Introductory level courses in many Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines require students to acquire an enormous new disciplinespecific vocabulary in preparation for future courses. Students are often not prepared for the amount of selfdirected studying they must do to be successful in these types of courses, particularly in their first year of college. To assist student...

Grades and student evaluations of teachers

Understanding the relationship between grading practices and student evaluations is especially important in higher education because of the increasing importance of this instrument in the promotion process. If evaluations can be increased by giving higher grades, then they are a flawed instrument for the evaluation of teaching. Further, this process may be contributing to the inflation of grade...

High-Stakes Interpretation