Smerging Data:
More Than Just Number Crunching

Authors: Anne Mulgrew, Elisa Rawe

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Unravel the mystery of grading and reporting.

  • Grading and Communicating Student Learning
    Grading - a short history
    Purpose of grading
    Obstacles to communicating student learning
    Roles of the principal, teacher, student and parent
  • Classroom Grading Practices
    Introduction
    Self-reflection on classroom grading practices survey
    Grading practices tally
    Glossary
  • Grading - Issues and Possibilities
    Introduction
    What are the foundations of grading practices? (Vignettes 1-3)
    What factors should be considered in determining a grade? (Vignettes 4-6)
    How are fair and accurate grades determined? (Vignettes 7-9)
    How is data used in determining a grade? (Vignettes 10-13)Articulating our school's grading practices
  • References and Resources (R&R)
    New tools
    Assessment as the basis for communicating individual student achievement
    Personal grading practices
    Teaching quality standard
    Grading formulae: what grades do students deserve?
    Legislation affecting student records
    How to convert rubric scores to grades
    Curves, criteria and reporting systems
    Rubrics for non-achievement factors
    Initiating and communicating change
  • Selected Bibliography

The Alberta Assessment Consortium thanks the members of the writing, review and editing teams:
Alberta Assessment Consortium - Robert Hogg
Calgary Board of Education - Susan Brims
Edmonton Catholic Schools - Monique Gibeau
Edmonton Public Schools - Tanis Marshall and Sandra Carl-Townsend
Living Waters Catholic Schools - Dwain Tymchyshyn
Parkland School Division - Marnie Beaudoin

Special thanks to reviewers and editors: Dale Armstrong (University of Alberta), Carole Beaton (Canadian Rockies), Delores Dante (Holy Spirit), Barb Eklund and Catherine Moir (Chinook’s Edge), Fred Kirby (Fort Vermilion), Carol Anne Inglis, Mary Michilaides and Anne Mulgrew (Edmonton Public), Jo-Ann Reil (St. Albert Protestant), Jacqueline Skytt (ATA) and Chris Zarski (Living Waters)

AAC recognizes that Anne Mulgrew of Edmonton Public Schools first coined the phrase smerging data.

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