Are Your Grades REALLY Measuring Student Learning?

Have you ever wondered if the grades you’re giving truly reflect your students’ progress? In this video, Matthew Courtney dives into the concepts of reliability and validity in grading, showing you how to make sure your grades are accurate reflections of student learning. With practical steps to improve grading consistency and accuracy, you’ll learn how to create a system that measures what students really know, not just their effort or participation.

Reliability ensures that grades are consistent—students would get the same grade regardless of when or who is grading. Validity, on the other hand, focuses on accuracy, ensuring that grades reflect true mastery of skills rather than unrelated factors like neatness or behavior. Matthew explains how using clear rubrics, aligning assessments with objectives, and tracking performance data can help remove subjectivity and ensure fair, meaningful grading.

He also discusses the power of data monitoring to identify grading inconsistencies and refine assessment methods. By making grades reliable, valid, and truly representative of learning, you can support students in understanding their progress and encourage continuous improvement.

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Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Intro to Reliability and Validity
0:52 - Reliability in Detail
2:11 - Validity in Detail
3:22 - Ensuring Reliability and Validity in Grading


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