Grading item | Percentage | Descriptive | |||||||
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Not at all (1) | Very little (2) | Some (3) | Quite a bit (4) | Extensively (5) | Completely (6) | ||||
N | M | SD | |||||||
1. Improvement of performance | 0.0 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 44 | 16 | 113 | 4.50 | 1.10 |
2. Student effort-how much the student tried to learn | 2 | 3 | 15 | 24 | 37 | 19 | 113 | 4.47 | 1.17 |
3. Class participation | 2 | 11 | 13 | 23 | 30 | 21 | 113 | 4.32 | 1.35 |
4. Quality of graded homework | 0.0 | 9 | 15 | 32 | 24 | 20 | 111 | 4.30 | 1.21 |
5. Ability levels of the student | 0.0 | 8 | 20 | 23 | 32 | 17 | 113 | 4.29 | 1.20 |
6. Completion of ungraded homework | 1 | 7 | 25 | 23 | 32 | 12 | 111 | 4.14 | 1.19 |
7. Effort, improvement, behavior, and other non-test factors for borderline cases | 5 | 7 | 21 | 25 | 22 | 20 | 113 | 4.10 | 1.41 |
8. Specific learning objectives mastered | 2 | 10 | 15 | 31 | 32 | 10 | 113 | 4.10 | 1.20 |
9. Extra credit for academic performance | 10 | 14 | 18 | 16 | 27 | 15 | 109 | 3.80 | 1.57 |
10. Performance compared to other students | 7 | 10 | 16 | 43 | 17 | 7 | 111 | 3.77 | 1.24 |
11. Academic performance as opposed to other factors | 0.0 | 15 | 33 | 24 | 21 | 7 | 109 | 3.73 | 1.17 |
12. Work habits and neatness | 3 | 16 | 20 | 35 | 23 | 3 | 111 | 3.68 | 1.16 |
13. Performance compared to a set scale | 5 | 12 | 34 | 24 | 20 | 5 | 111 | 3.55 | 1.22 |
14. Inclusion of zeros for incomplete assignment | 22 | 21 | 25 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 113 | 2.88 | 1.49 |
15. Performance compared to students from previous years | 19 | 24 | 23 | 21 | 8 | 5 | 111 | 2.88 | 1.39 |
16. School or district policy for grading | 23 | 24 | 23 | 14 | 16 | 0.0 | 107 | 2.77 | 1.37 |
17. Grade distributions of other teachers | 29 | 23 | 21 | 19 | 3 | 5 | 104 | 2.59 | 1.41 |
18. Disruptive student behavior | 0.0 | 20 | 40 | 30 | 4 | 6 | 111 | 2.38 | 1.05 |
19. Extra credit for nonacademic performance | 52 | 12 | 16 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 110 | 2.14 | 1.40 |