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I'm sorry, but I've held my teaching license for less than a year, and the idea of preparing a test is daunting to me. I didn't apply any of the methods I learned during my assessment class to the tests I designed during student teaching, and I think these tests would have been ineffective in an actual teaching situation. I find assessment writing complicated. Please describe the simplest way possible to design and grade a weekly and monthly test.

Also, what is the easiest way to grade an essay if I have to use the five traits model? The rubric allows for far too much subjectivity.
Sara On 3/18/12, subteacher86 wrote: Grading is subjective - we like to pretend it's not but it is. For that reason as well as others I grade gently and try to err on the side of being generous.

Especially when I grade writing - in our school we took an essay and passed it around among the Lit/Language Arts teachers - we all graded it different...See More
May 2, 2012


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