Assessment paragraph JRA

Assessment may work best when students are not given grades but the degree to which students, parents and management want grades is the major obstacle? Also, the ease of recording makes grades tempting: though a grade should be used as a summary leading to a holistic assessment rather than an end in itself.

To overcome the obstacle of students and parents wanting grades what I usually do is not give a grade initially, but then once students have read feedback and created targets I get them to assign themselves a grade using the markscheme. This grade I will then either agree or disagree with.