Teaching Prepared by Caroline W. Ndirangu

4.5 
GRADING AND REPORTING
Assigning students grades is an important component of teaching and many 
schools issue progress reports at mid-term, end-term or both.
Reading # 20
Read the article on grading and reporting. Use the information from it to write 
about the weighting of exams and the different types of grades.
  Grading and reporting 
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/
 
i)  Explain how various assignments and assessments are weighted in 100-120 
words.
ii)   Describe the different categories of grading in 200-300 words
iii)  The results below are grades of a form three class in a Mathematics class. 
The marks are out of 100%
10  30 
40 
10 
25 
15 
45
50  65 
70 
17 
16 
21 
24
08  06 
30 
50 
12 
14 
32
a)   What is the mean score?
b)   Draw a scatter graph to determine the distribution of the scores
c)   Explain in 100-150 words how the teacher can use these grades to pre-
pare lessons to suit the learners
HINT
Your mean showed that most of the learners have below 40% and the scatter 
graph shows that most grades are on the lower scale with only 4 above 50%. 
Identify the questions they failed by doing a question performance analysis and 
identify the students who have performed poorly. As you plan the revision lesson 
re-teach the concepts that learners found difficult and group the learners so as to 
address the individual differences. Be innovative and consider different teaching 
approaches that are learner-centered. Re-test the learners by giving an exercise 
on the concepts you taught them.

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African Virtual University
   
Learning Tip
Assigning grades is an important component of teaching for issue of reports to 
parents /guardian and record keeping. Weighting of assignments, homework 
quizzes progress assessments may combine achievement, effort, growth, attitude,