PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY OF GRADING PAPER ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS OVERVIEW Read: McDo

PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY OF GRADING PAPER ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW
Read: McDonald Chapters 10-11, and 13
Each educator has his or her personal philosophy of grading. This philosophy includes beliefs about extra credit opportunities, rounding of grades, the concepts of pass and failure, and even how grade appeals may be considered. Now that you have a baseline for test development and procedures, think about your personal philosophy for grading.
INSTRUCTIONS
Consider the following questions:
1. Do you feel everyone should pass the course, and if they don’t, is it a negative reflection on your teaching?
2. What is your personal philosophy of grading? Consider the following questions posed by Frisbe and Waltman (1992, p. 36) as you develop your own personal philosophy of grading.
a. What meaning should each grade symbol carry?
b. What should failure mean?
c. What elements of performance should be incorporated in a grade?
d. How should the grades in a class be distributed? Should everyone pass, the majority pass, or should it be difficult for everyone to pass?
e. What components should go into a final grade?
f. How should the components of the grade be combined? Should students have to pass both the clinical and the theory component of the class, just the theory, or just the clinical?
g. What method should be used to assign grades? Points, letters, pass/fail?
h. Should borderline cases be reviewed? Should you round, and if so, at what point would you round?
You must have at least 5 references. The average length should be 5–7 pages, excluding the title page and references. Please be sure the paper is written in narrative form, applying current APA formatting guidelines.
 
Reference
Frisbie, D.A. and Waltman, K.K. (1992). Developing a personal grading plan. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 11: 35-42.
Textbook:
American Psychological Association. Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (Current ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
McDonald, M. E. (2018). The nurse educator’s guide to assessing learning outcomes (4th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett. ISBN: 9781284113365.
**I included my personal philosophy paper I wrote previously.