GRADING PRACTICES IN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOLS

Grading Lead in Schools

In this month's issue, investigators Charles V. Shorten and Marijane K. Hooven of West Chester University in Pennsylvania report on a method that may give a more realistic measure of the exposure of preschool children to lead-contaminated dust [EHP 108:663-666]. Shorten and Hooven set out to assess the relationship between 168 preschool children attending Philadelphia Head Start programs and va...

Leadership Practices and Mathematics Pass Rate in Jamaican High Schools

This research was intended to explore the degree to which leadership practices impacted Jamaican schools’ mathematics achievement. More specifically, the researchers examined Jamaica’s high school students’ CSEC mathematics performance in relation to principals’ instructional leadership behaviors as measured by teachers’ perceptions, using Kouzes and Posner (2003) Leadership Practices Inventory...

the impact of musical texts on the text recall of young learners of english in isfahan junior high schools

abstract although music possesses some kind of power and using it has been welcome by many students in language classrooms, it seems that they take a non-serious image of the lesson while listening to songs and they may think that it is a matter of fun. the main objective of the present study was to investigate whether learning a foreign language through musical texts (songs) can have an impac...

Variation and imprecision of clerkship grading in U.S. medical schools.

PURPOSE Despite standardized curricula and mandated accreditation, concern exists regarding the variability and imprecision of medical student evaluation. The authors set out to perform a complete review of clerkship evaluation in U.S. medical schools. METHOD Clerkship evaluation data were obtained from all Association of American Medical Colleges-affiliated medical schools reporting enrollme...

Understanding and Developing Inclusive Practices in Schools