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Welcome to the Testing and Grading Chatboard!
by Bob Reap (Teachers.Net)
Jun 17, 2011
Welcome to the Testing and Grading Chatboard. This chatboard is for teachers to discuss testing and test making strategies and methods, and issues related to grading students.

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Marge On 6/18/11, Lisa wrote: > On 6/18/11, Gayla King wrote: >> Do any of you teach kindergarten. If so, what does your report >> card look like and how do you derive grades for it? >> gintexas > > I don't teach kinder, but our kinder teachers have a benchmark > form they give parents. It is the same for every quarter (with...See More
Jun 18, 2011
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disney cathy Hi Bob, I'm retired now but when I was teaching K the only test I had to give was that Dibbles Reading Test and it was just a big pain. It really didn't help because I knew ahead of time what kids would fly through it and the ones who would struggle. Oh there were surprises sometime. I had to give this test three times a year. I'm wondering if K te...See More
Jun 19, 2011
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Tallytchr administer a test called FAIR three times a year (actually....all grades must do this but at K it must be especially hard).

This test requires more time than Dibbles. I'm not sure how good the info is but as a second grade teacher...I don't find it valuable.

But FAIR was developed by a professor in Florida and the state went with ...See More
Jun 19, 2011
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DeAnn I teach K in Arizona. Our report card is a standards based report card. It lists the major standards for reading and math. The children are graded with P for proficient, D for developing and E for emergent. But the district is looking to make a more uniform report card for the grades as least to fifth that can be done through the computer, so this ...See More
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Ashwaq testing is a good way for students to learn and really remember what they took in classes but it's really exhausting for teachers because of making the tests and grading the students after correcting piles of papaers everyday , really it's a torture for teachers. And I feel extremely bad for having to give Cs for weak students , I don't like to mak...See More
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