Purpose Statement
The Record Keeping Grid helps students maintain personal
responsibility for their grade and status in the class. This allows them to
take an active role in their own education.
Description of
Activity
Students are given a record keeping grid in which there is a
place to log in all grades given for each assignment. For a credit / no credit
course, I have found it helpful to include the minimum standards needed to pass
that aspect of the course curriculum.
Allowing students to keep track of their own scores and grades on one piece of
paper teaches them to be responsible for their own record keeping. I am rarely
asked “how am I doing in this class?” because my students know exactly where
they stand. This also helps students “see” exactly what assignments they may
have skipped or missed and the effect that that has on their grade.
Materials Needed
When handing back papers or tests, students take out their
record keeping grids and log in their scores at the same time. It may add an
extra minute or two to your time returning papers, but in using the grid,
students are more likely to look at and file their papers rather than shove
them in a backpack or throw them away.
Application
N/A
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