Chapter 8

This chapter is largely about the issue about whether or not to incorporate attendence, effort, and participation into a grade. It s a difficult topic to reason a solution to. On one side grades are supposed to reflect mastery of the material and therefore diluting the grade with these other ideas would remove the accuracy of the grade ( unless its some sort of topic where participation is the material being graded). On the other side of things, school is supposed to prepare students for the real world, so is it right to have a student being able to pass with an A when they're missing the majority of the classes? If they did this in the real job world, they'd be fired.

This question of whether to include these ideas in grades causes a lot of mental struggle. For a lot of us growing up attendence and participation were included in grades so it seems hard not to do so as well. But we also know that there can be circumstances in which having attendence can hurt a students learning more than help and thats something we always want to avoid. A way to include effort was mentioned by having students right reflective pieces at the end of each unit aobut what they learned and what they thought of it.