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Tom Walters

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Journalist. Recipient of the 2022 RTDNA National Lifetime Achievement Award. Retweets do not necessarily represent my views.
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What student grades should (and shouldn’t) tell us

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By Tom Walters
| Daily Item Verified
What sort of knowledge can we garner from student grades? Are they an accurate gauge of what students know and understand? Do they tell us if students have mastered skills and absorbed information accurately? In other words, are student assessments — most often represented by numerical or letter grades – successfully telling us where youngsters are in the process of learning?
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What grades do (and don't) tell us

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By Tom Walters
| The Derry News Verified
What sort of knowledge can we garner from student grades? Are they an accurate gauge of what students know and understand? Do they tell us if students have mastered skills and absorbed information accurately? In other words, are student assessments – most often represented by numerical or letter grades – successfully telling us where youngsters are in the process of learning? Because that’s what we need to know. Grades are to the educational process what a blood test is to health.
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Transitions, next steps, and all that’s left to come

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By Tom Walters
| The Eagle-Tribune Verified
Life is a series of transitions: childhood to adolescence, adolescence to adulthood, student to worker, parent to grandparent … so many more. With aging comes retirement – the “golden years.” and along the way we hope to have found some measure of success and happiness at each stage while weathering the ups and downs of transition. kAmxE @44FCD E@ >6 E92E @G6C E96 J62CD x 5C6H 8C62E :?DA:C2E:@? 7C@> >J DEF56?ED[ H96E96C x <?6H :E 2E E96 E:>6 @C ?@E] x 36=:6G6 x 82:?65 2E =62DE 2D >F49 :?DA:C2E:@?
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