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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grading in most classrooms remains tied to rubrics devised by individual teachers and rooted in century-old practices. Recently, amid a broader national trend, grading systems in schools have come ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Big changes are coming for sixth, seventh and eighth graders at Portland Public Schools this fall. Students will no longer receive letter grades when they return to school in ...

A rubric is an evaluation tool that identifies criteria relevant to an assignment and describes levels of performance expectations for the assignment or other student work. Grading rubrics communicate ...

Goals and objectives are measured by a performance assessment in the courses required for the Philosophy major. Specifically, student performance in writing essays, and essay exam questions, will be ...

Learn about rubrics and how they can help clarify your expectations around assessments and streamline the grading process while supporting students’ learning. Your assessment criteria, standards and ...