As a 16-year-old who has two more years left of high school until graduation, I am concerned for the future of education. There are, without a doubt, substantial issues. Fortunately, our educational ...
Standards-based grading (SBG)—or competency-based grading—measures student progress relative to specific learning standards. This system of evaluation isolates the learning of content and mastery of ...
In Laurie Pennington’s science classes at Gunn High School, standards-based grading has tested students’ and parents’ firm attachment to traditional grades. This is the fourth year she’s used the form ...
Researchers find merit in deeper grading methods, but don’t look closely at vexing ideas like no homework deadlines Given my complaining about the dearth of control group research in the spreading, ...
Students at Ashland Middle School in Oregon don’t get A’s or B’s on their assignments, they aren’t graded on a 100-point scale, or given a traditional standards-based grade. But these students—and ...
This past school year, standards-based grading and learning was fully implemented at Battle Mountain and Eagle Valley high schools. Over the past several years, Eagle County School District has ...
YPSILANTI, MI - Ypsilanti Community Schools is moving toward a standards-based grading model at its high school that focuses on students’ progress toward mastering specific concepts without ...
Project-based learning is a great way to engage students in interest-based activities but sometimes that’s all it is. Good projects are deep not thin, rigorous not easy. Good schools help students’ ...