Exit Slip: October 17, 2019
Today's class started with an amazing presentation by Christa about Solar system and orbits of planets. I personally enjoyed being the planet Neptune orbiting along with Pluto around Sun.
We also talked about our entrance slip about Marks and Grades for assessment. One thing that ponders everyone is, Are Marks accurate? I feel to answer this question, we need to know how marks are arrived at and how often students are marked or graded in classrooms for assessments. Although marks cannot be the only tool to assess students, it is a way of evaluation of students' performance in the current education system. I don't think Marks are always an accurate judgement of one's level of progression but can be indicative of one's achievement when calculated number of times through different models of assessment.
It is hard to take one fixed stand over this question because it depends upon the type of assessment used for grading. For example, in a test/ quiz with objective questions, marks may indicate one's level of understanding for some cases, whereas it can also be a matter of luck or cheating or some kind of help for others. Likewise, in a group project, marks may not indicate efforts and understanding of all group members to the same level. So marks don't accurately measure students' understanding of concepts.
On the contrary, some students may be consistent in getting the kind of same grades in all sorts of assessment, may because of their actual understanding and efforts involved. In such cases, one can say that marks are measuring their achievement. So it really depends upon the criteria of assessment and assigning grades.
Today's class started with an amazing presentation by Christa about Solar system and orbits of planets. I personally enjoyed being the planet Neptune orbiting along with Pluto around Sun.
We also talked about our entrance slip about Marks and Grades for assessment. One thing that ponders everyone is, Are Marks accurate? I feel to answer this question, we need to know how marks are arrived at and how often students are marked or graded in classrooms for assessments. Although marks cannot be the only tool to assess students, it is a way of evaluation of students' performance in the current education system. I don't think Marks are always an accurate judgement of one's level of progression but can be indicative of one's achievement when calculated number of times through different models of assessment.
It is hard to take one fixed stand over this question because it depends upon the type of assessment used for grading. For example, in a test/ quiz with objective questions, marks may indicate one's level of understanding for some cases, whereas it can also be a matter of luck or cheating or some kind of help for others. Likewise, in a group project, marks may not indicate efforts and understanding of all group members to the same level. So marks don't accurately measure students' understanding of concepts.
On the contrary, some students may be consistent in getting the kind of same grades in all sorts of assessment, may because of their actual understanding and efforts involved. In such cases, one can say that marks are measuring their achievement. So it really depends upon the criteria of assessment and assigning grades.
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