Standards-Based Grading
Standards-based
grading or competency-based grading measures students’ progress relative to the
learning standard. Teachers are given standards that they are required to
teach. Many schools and states use the common core, or something similar,
if you are in Texas you may use TEKS.
There are
many benefits to standards-based grading.
✔ Promotes
a growth mindset
✔ Clear
communication
✔
Meaningful grades
✔ Based on
evidence
Standards-Based Assessments
An
effective way to do standards-based grading is by using standards-based
assessments. A standards-based assessment can be a small assessment based on a
specific standard. If a student passes the assessment, then you have evidence
that they understand the standard. If a student does not pass, they can take
the assessment again after some intervention. You can either give them the
exact same assessment or edit the questions so the content is the same, but the
answers will be different. Then you can put their assessments into their
portfolios as evidence for meeting the standards.
A drawback
to standards-based grading, is that it can be more work for the teachers.
However, if you have all the assessments ready before hand, and the answer key,
then this will lessen the workload for the teacher.
That is
why I created these standard-based assessments, to support standards-based
grading in the classroom without extra work for the teachers.
✔ Aligned
to common core standards
✔ Covers
all the standards
✔
Editable
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