Grading item | Factor loading | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
Factor 1: Academic enablers | ||||
Student effort-how much the student tried to learn | .85 | .09 | .22 | .09 |
Improvement of performance | .82 | .07 | .20 | .16 |
Class participation | .80 | .30 | .06 | .18 |
Ability levels of the students | .78 | .19 | .20 | −.19 |
Effort, improvement, behavior and other non-test factors for borderline cases | .71 | −.03 | −.01 | .33 |
Academic performance as opposed to other factors | .60 | .54 | .04 | −.17 |
Specific learning objectives mastered | .59 | .41 | −.25 | .25 |
Work habits and neatness | .48 | .27 | .34 | .30 |
Factor 2: External benchmarks and homework | ||||
Performance compared to students from previous years | .08 | .77 | .30 | .19 |
Performance compared to other students | .28 | .73 | .15 | −.22 |
Performance compared to a set scale | .41 | .67 | −.13 | .24 |
Grade distributions of other teachers | −.09 | .61 | .29 | .15 |
School or district policy for grading | .132 | .58 | .48 | .17 |
Completion of ungraded homework | .35 | .55 | .30 | .26 |
Quality of graded homework | .52 | .53 | .10 | .32 |
Factor 3: Classroom-management grading | ||||
Disruptive student behavior | .15 | .17 | .78 | −.10 |
Inclusion of zeros for incomplete assignment | .16 | .13 | .74 | .07 |
Extra credit for nonacademic performance | −.01 | .29 | .61 | .47 |
Extra credit for academic performance | .60 | .19 | .07 | .74 |
Eigenvalue | 7.82 | 2.34 | 1.38 | 1.08 |
Percent of variance accounted for | 41.07 | 12.31 | 7.24 | 5.67 |
Alpha reliability coefficient | .90 | .83 | .71 | na |