title: Elements of Grading: Book
author: Solution Tree
description: For most teachers, grading students is a gunky game an enterprise ruled more by whim than rigor. Yet, in this exciting new book, Doug Reeves shows educators how they can make grading accurate, fair, specific, and timely. If, as he contends, grading is feedback, then the grade Reeves earns for this volume is a glistening A-plus! --James Popham, Professor Emeritus, University of California at Los Angeles<br /><br />In this beautiful book, Doug Reeves, one of the most respected leaders of school reform in the nation, takes the topic of grading and opens it up for us, bringing his insight to assessment, feedback, standards, competition, record keeping, conferring . . . and above all, teaching itself. I read this book as a mother of high school boys and am thankful that he understands the devastation that haphazard grading policies can wreck on students' lives. I read it as a leader of school reform and am overjoyed to be given a lever with which to lift the level of student work. Above all, I read it as a teacher, looking for and finding ways to do the most good that I can for my students. Authoritative, based on mountains of data and eminent good sense, Elements of Grading is accessible not only to read but to implement, and yet it can have world-changing consequences. You will not want to miss this one. --Lucy Calkins, Director of the Reading and Writing Project, Teachers College, Columbia University<br /><br />In this beautiful book, Doug Reeves, one of the most respected leaders of school reform in the nation, takes the topic of grading and opens it up for us, bringing his insight to assessment, feedback, standards, competition, record keeping, conferring . . . and above all, teaching itself. I read this book as a mother of high school boys and am thankful that he understands the devastation that haphazard grading policies can wreck on students' lives. I read it as a leader of school reform and am overjoyed to be given a lever with which to lift the level of student work. Above all, I read it as a teacher, looking for and finding ways to do the most good that I can for my students. Authoritative, based on mountains of data and eminent good sense, Elements of Grading is accessible not only to read but to implement, and yet it can have world-changing consequences. You will not want to miss this one. --Lucy Calkins, Director of the Reading and Writing Project, Teachers College, Columbia University
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  * [Maps](vw_split_006.html#calibre_toc_2)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER 1](vw_split_010.html#calibre_toc_3)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER 2](vw_split_011.html#calibre_toc_4)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER 3](vw_split_012.html#calibre_toc_5)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER 4](vw_split_013.html#calibre_toc_6)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER 5](vw_split_014.html#calibre_toc_7)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER 6](vw_split_015.html#calibre_toc_8)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER 7](vw_split_016.html#calibre_toc_9)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER 8](vw_split_017.html#calibre_toc_10)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER 9](vw_split_018.html#calibre_toc_11)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER 10](vw_split_019.html#calibre_toc_12)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER 11](vw_split_020.html#calibre_toc_13)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER 12](vw_split_021.html#calibre_toc_14)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER 13](vw_split_022.html#calibre_toc_15)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER 14](vw_split_023.html#calibre_toc_16)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER 15](vw_split_024.html#calibre_toc_17)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER 16](vw_split_025.html#calibre_toc_18)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER 17](vw_split_026.html#calibre_toc_19)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER 18](vw_split_027.html#calibre_toc_20)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER 19](vw_split_028.