Hey, everyone! Hope you are enjoying the long weekend, or some of you are already out for the summer (jealous!). I haven't blogged in quite a few weeks, but we are preparing for exams so I know y'all feel my pain!
Whether you're counting down the days until the end, or starting your summer, this is the time of reflection and decompression from the school year. Reflecting is an important part of our practice and can help support your instruction for the following school year.
With the end of the school year arriving quickly, I give my students course evaluations and a survey about the implementation of standards based grading. I also have my students track their own mastery of their standards in their mastery notebooks. Get the tracker for FREE here.
Based on the results and conversations with our administrative team, my Professional Learning Community made some changes to our scale for reporting grades. We will report grades using both traditional numbers and our numeric score scale for mastery of standards. In our reporting system (PowerTeacherPro), we are able to attach standards to assignments (graded using 0-4 mastery levels) and score the specific assignment (graded by averaging the mastery scores using traditional 0-100 scale).
0 (40) - No Evidence/Missing
1 (50) - Not Yet Mastered
2 (65) - Partially Mastered
3 (80) - Almost Mastered
4 (100) - Mastered
1 (50) - Not Yet Mastered
2 (65) - Partially Mastered
3 (80) - Almost Mastered
4 (100) - Mastered
We are hoping this will help alleviate any confusion about what grades mean because our school is still on traditional grading. What do you think? Email through the site or comment below to let me know!
Communication and understanding how grades are calculated are very important if you or others are looking to implement standards based grading.
Apart from the PLC, I give my students a diagnostic test, a midterm and a mock final exam to measure their progress of the standards. If you're interested in seeing a post about that or more about "benchmark" style data collection and assessment, comment below as well!
Thanks for taking the time to read this and enjoy the rest of your week!
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