Contributors
I. Overview 3
II. Comparative Grading 7
1. Weekly Reports in Schools / S.G.B. 11
2. A Guide to the Equitable Grading of Students / Winfield Scott Hall 15
3. The Grading of Students / Max Meyer 20
4. Reliability of Grading Work in History / Daniel Starch, Edward C. Elliott 28
5. Fundamental Misconceptions Involved in Current Marking Systems / S.L. Pressey 33
6. Letter to a B Student / Robert Oliphant 37
III. Mastery Grading 43
7. The Practice of Teaching in the Secondary School / Henry C. Morrison 45
8. Adjusting the School to the Child / Carleton Washburne 53
9. Mastery Learning and Grade Inflation / Jon J. Denton, Kenneth T. Henson 63
10. On Grades, Grading and School Reform / William G. Spady 67
IV. Grades, Marks and Motivation 77
11. Lectures on Education / Horace Mann 80
12. Talks on Pedagogics / Francis W. Parker 82
13. Marks and the Marking System As an Incentive to Study / Stephen S. Colvin 85
14. School Marks - Why, What and How? / William L. Wrinkle 93
15. Reaching the Unmotivated / William Glasser 101
16. The Failure of Schools Without Failure / Robert L. Ebel 105
V. Grading and Marking Versus an Enlarged Concept of Student Evaluation 113
17. Written Examinations - Their Abuse, and Their Use / Agnes M. Lathe 117
18. Evaluation: A Challenge to Progressive Education / Ralph W. Tyler 121
19. Are There Better Ways of Evaluating, Recording and Reporting Pupil Progress in the Junior and Senior High Schools? / Lemuel R. Johnston 129
20. Evaluating and Reporting Pupil Progress / Lucile Morris 136
21. Beyond Standardized Testing / Doug A. Archbald, Fred M. Newmann 143
Index 149