Accurately report students’ academic strengths and weaknesses with standards-based grading. Rather than using traditional systems that incorporate nonacademic factors such as attendance and behavior, learn to assess and report student performance based on prioritized standards. You will discover reliable, practical methods for analyzing what students have learned and gain effective strategies for offering students feedback on their progress.
This guide not only articulates significant research supporting standards-based grading as an accurate, precise, and effective way to report academic strengths and weaknesses but also shares applicable anecdotes from educators implementing ...
Ensure your school’s grading procedures are supportive of learning, accurate, meaningful, and consistent.
Learn everything you need to know to implement an integrated system of assessment and grading.
When teachers adopt standards-based learning, students take ownership of their education and achievement soars.
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Tim R. Westerberg makes this journey easier by offering a continuum of options, with four "destinations" on the road to improved grading and assessment.
This book is ideal for those who may wish to lead a Standards-Based reform in their school with in-depth processes for every step along the way.
... improvement has been made, rather than just where they are (Guskey, 1996b, 2006c; Guskey & Jung, 2006). As we showed in Chapter 4, most of the research evidence on progress criteria comes from studies of individualized instruction ...
Learn how to overcome the knowing-doing gap in standards-based learning systems, and move toward unpacking the standards and learning targets your students need.
. This must-have book will help teachers learn to implement improved, equity-focused grading for impact." —Zaretta Hammond, Author of Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain Crack open the grading conversation Here at last—and none ...