Description: Traditional grading practices are rarely questioned, and yet they carry embedded assumptions that are somewhat incompatible with what we know about motivation, learning, and assessment. Standards-based grading offers an approach that shifts student and parent conversations away from points and more towards learning goals. Learn elements of a research-based grading and assessment system you can adapt in part or in whole to bring your grading practices into greater harmony with student needs, without sacrificing student accountability for learning.
Take Aways: Deeper knowledge of flaws in traditional grading and strategies to mitigate them. Introductory knowledge (at minimum) of standards-based grading theory and practices.
