Chapter eleven of Fair Isn't Always Equal deals with the ever-lasting issue of grading and how teachers should handle late work and work that never gets passed in. I learned that it is always better to give a grade on a late assignment than to just give the student a zero. This way, the student is receiving a better representation of what they really know of the material. I also loved the idea of taking off a few points off of a late assignment, instead of marking it down a whole letter grade. I remember when I injured my leg during junior year and I was on pain medications that made me drowsy. I would pass in my homework late and I had this one teacher who would mark me down a whole letter grade because of it, even though she knew that I understood the materials and subject content. It was so frustrating and it made me never want to pass in anything else in her class. However, when I am a teacher, I will not accept a late homework assignment every week. A couple of late assignments a month is acceptable, because I know that students have issues every now and then. But there is no excuse for not having their homework assignment every day. Grading is a very touchy issue and it is important for me to remember that I have to be fair in my grading because I do not want to misrepresent a student's mastery of the content.
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