The History of Grading
Channel: tessmessage
Date: 2014-11-05

An 11-minute video that provides a very brief overview of the teaching of writing at the college level: It defines grading versus assessment, gives a brief historical overview of grading and the teaching of writing in American universities, discusses the conflict between grading and responding, indicates the difference between current-traditional and newer models of writing instruction, and provides some historical shortcuts to the grading process.