At this meeting, make a decision and tell the student what it is. The student may appeal your decision within five days to the Dean of Students' office. TOP Evaluation Many in our profession view evaluation as the black hole of curriculum in the humanities. Applying a given value, some scholars have demonstrated, displaces other values, and paradoxically contradicts the system that generates it. Whenever we give a grade to a piece of writing, some might construe us to have cast part of our moral selves into a lightless deconstructive field.
Formative assessment is a teaching tactic.
In our program it usually occurs in peer review sessions, during writing conferences and after the first deadline submission of a piece of writing. Its success depends on the student's desire to achieve particular rhetorical purposes and the teacher's aptness at helping the student fulfill that desire. Examples The College Boards administer the Praxis Exam to teach interns in their college senior year as a means of determining their fitness to teach particular disciplines. The exam for English at the secondary level requires teaching interns to read a high school student's composition and to write an extended formative evaluation to the student. Grades One way to understand a letter grade is to realize that a grade is given when teaching is finished.