Assess the practices of establishing prescribed ranges (fixed standards) for grades. Is is a better system than grading on the curve? Having the students grade their classmates was a good idea but Allison should've said that the students had to write an explanation to the score they are giving their peers. Curving the grade might not be very helpful because the students that got the Cs would have gotten As. The students would have played with their peer's grades as they did anyways. Grading unfairly is something that Allison should have had considered and mentioned after noticing that the students were grading unfairly. According to Woolfolk's book said that curving the grade might damage the relationship between the students and the teacher and also affect the student's motivation (Woolfolk, p. 587, 2016 ). If the students feel like the grade is not what matter they might not feel motivated but it could go both ways because they can also realize that the grade is only a grade and that they can learn instead of worrying on a grade. In my field experience this term I am in a special education class where right now they are testing so I am in and out of the classroom and working with the special education students in their normal classrooms. I get to access their behavior by using a bat that has a lot of dots that I …show more content…
Make the grading by their classmates worth a little less and grade herself and use their feedback and grade the students to how she saw they worked. She should have had created a knowledge building community and not a competition to who would get better grades or worse grades but collaborate with each other to help improve their learning. Foster opportunities for learners to increase curiosity about their peers' thinking and acknowledge their uniqueness and how they can work together to obtain greater outcomes from their experience in the classroom and