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Create High Impact Grading Guidelines to Improve Student Assignments and Maximize Your Time and Feedback
Date: April 19, 2013
Time: Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Location: CK 404B or contact Audrey Cutler for information on watching a streaming video of this event
Presenter: Dr. Ronald S. Thomas (Dept. of Instructional Leadership and Professional Development)
Description:
Frustrated when students miss the purpose of an assessment or write irrelevant and rambling responses to questions? Learn to create grading guidelines that are meaningful to you and your students with Instructional Leadership expert Dr. Ron Thomas.
These assignment scoring tools help students to:
- Easily identify assignment expectations
- Respond to all the components of assignments
- Improve their work using focused feedback
- Revise their work more effectively
Using a variety of examples, Dr. Thomas will guide you through the process of breaking down assignments into parts. He will discuss his approach to assessment and his concept of encouraging students to “upgrade” their assignments.
About the presenter:
Dr. Ronald S. Thomas is the Associate Director of the Center for Leadership in Education at Towson University. His specialty areas include school improvement, data-based instructional decision making, interpreting standardized test scores, and using classroom formative assessments. Dr. Thomas has been a long-term data coach for over 25 schools across the state. He works with teams in these schools several times during the year to help them use their data to improve their instruction and increase student achievement. He is the co-developer of the Classroom-Focused Improvement Process (CFIP), a six-step data analysis protocol on the Maryland State Department of Education website.
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