Imputed Meaning: An Exploration of How Teachers Interpret Grades
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Ungerleider, C
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Grading and the interpretation of grades are inextricable facets of teachers’ work. Nonetheless, teachers find it challenging to explain the inferences they draw from grades and the decisions they make based upon grades. This article explores teachers’ thinking about the grades assigned by their peers. This study used a think-aloud task in which 21 teachers placed 24 fictional student record cards in remedial, average, or advanced programs, based upon student grades earned from Grades 4 through 7. The teachers’ responses to the task exposed the many meanings they impute to grades and the biases that their interpretations revealed, providing concrete evidence of how biases influence the decisions teachers make about students.
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Action in Teacher Education
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41
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3
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© 2019 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies on 07 Feb 2019, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/01626620.2019.1574246
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Specialist studies in education
Education assessment and evaluation
Teacher education and professional development of educators
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Riley, T; Ungerleider, C, Imputed Meaning: An Exploration of How Teachers Interpret Grades, Action in Teacher Education, 2019, 41 (3), pp. 212-228