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Grading Philosophy, Reporting, and Transcripts

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This page provides information about grading in a competency-based education system.

See also Progress and Proficiency: Redesigning Grading for Competency Education

What's Wrong with Traditional Grading

What's wrong with averages? (Jan 2016)
A short podcast by Michael Martin, Montpelier HS in VT, on proficiency-based grading (Mar 2016)

Designing New Reporting Systems: Standards-based Grading and Other Alternatives

From Great Schools Partnership
Why Use a Standards-Based Grading System? (Expeditionary Learning) A parent, a student, a teacher, and the principal from Casco Bay High School in Portland, Maine, discuss how standards-based grading works and the benefits of the system
Understanding Grades in a Standards-Based System (Expeditionary Learning) Casco Bay High School ELA teacher Susan McCray explains how she sets up her gradebook for standards-based grading.
Descriptive Feedback Helps All Students Reach Proficiency - Standards-Based Grading (Expeditionary Learning) Casco Bay High School ELA teacher Susan McCray helps all students reach writing standards through descriptive feedback.
Standards-Based Grading Overview (Activegrade)
Standards-based grading at Forest Grove High: Forest Grove English teacher Allison Marks talks about standards-based grading (Please note: As of 2012, Forest Grove is doing standards-referenced grading. Students with Cs and Ds are still passed on to the next class.)
Rick Wormeli videos

Toxic Grading Practices by Doug Reeves talks about zeros and the relationship to disciplinary issues, trending rather than averaging, late work and getting the work done, teaching children resilience
Demystifying Standards (Maine Dept. of Ed.) Essay by Greg Palmer, former principal of Searspoint High School
Report Card examples
Standards-based grading misconceptions (Shawn Cornally)
Leading to Change: Effective Grading Practices (Doug Reeves, Educational Leadership, 2008)
Standards-Based Grading and New Approaches (Regional Education Lab, NCCRA Bridge Event) Conference materials
Classroom Assessment and Grading that Work (Robert Marzano)
Grant Wiggins on Grading

State

Oregon's Assessment, Grading and Reporting policy

Districts

RSU2 in Maine uses a seven-level standards-based progress report
Rochester Schools Guide for Parents
Jeffrey Erickson writes about the Minnetonka Public Schools transition to a new grading system

Schools

Casco Bay Charter School, Portland, Oregon

Casco Bay Family Grading Guide
Sample transcript
Casco Bay High School School Profile
I Want to Know More, Leadership in Action's report about grading principles, featuring Casco Bay

Diploma Plus Grading Systems

Epping High School

Brochure on grading

Sanborn Regional High School, New Hampshire

Spaulding High School, Rochester, NH

Grading philosphy (See CompetencyWorks for three-part case study on Spaulding
Relearning and Reassessment - Erica Stofanek's insights into changes in the classroom (CW)

Two Rivers Public Charter School, Washington DC

Critical Thinking Rubrics and Performance Tasks

**From CompetencyWorks**

Assessment

Unleashed to Learn: Book Highlights Performance Assessment - Gary Chapin
Which Pilot Do You Want Flying Your Plane? - Brian Stack
Assessment All the Time? Why Not? - Bill Zima
Setting Students Up For Failure? - Chris Sturgis
What Gets Measured Gets Done - Chris Sturgis
Question Making - Chris Sturgis
Competency-Based Learning and FLVS - Melissa Young and Janna Peskett
A GPS for Competency Education - Chris Sturgis
Testing Myths - Courtney Belolan Roy
Class Rank in A Competency-Based High School - Brian Stack
Competencies Builds Better Assessment Practices - Andrew Miller
Did I Mention That It's Hard? - Chris Sturgis
Where Do End-of-Course Exams Fit In? - Chris Sturgis
Assessment At the Center - Barbara Weed
A Rubric for Competency Education - Paul Leather
Measure What Matters - Barbara Weed
Pre-Assessment: A Key to the ZPD by Courtney Belolan Roy
Understanding Formative Assessment Using the Teaching and Learning Mobius Strip by Courtney Belolan Roy
Competency Education In the News by C. Sturgis

Grading

Competency-Based Grading and Common Core Math: A Perfect Match? by Brian Stack
Reassessments and Retakes: A Necessary Part of a School-Wide Grading Policy by Brian Stack
Making the Grade Count by Caroline Messenger
Getting Up to Speed on Grading by C. Sturgis
Is Mastery A 3 or 4 or Something Way Beyond That? by C. Sturgis
What Happens When A Student Reaches Proficiency? by Chris Sturgis
Oregon Gets an A+ for Its New Grading Policy by Chris Sturgis
Exceeding Is More Complicated Than Adding Glitter and Flash by Courtney Belolan Roy
Assessment of Learning with Competency-Based Grading by Brian Stack
Ten Must-Haves to Lead Us Through the Grading Quagmire by Tom Vander Ark
Are Colleges Dictating How We Record Student Learnings? by Josh Griffith
Mastery -- Putting Learning Before Grades by Tony Monfiletto
Put On Your Creative Hat When Thinking About Proficiency-Based Grading by Chris Sturgis
What is the Difference between Standards-Based Grading (or Reporting) and Competency-Based Education? by Matt Townsley

In the News

Nashua school officials working to figure out how grading system will work- Nashua Telegraph, August 2013
New grading at Rochester Middle - Fosters, August 2013
Proficiency grading targets total mastery, puzzles parents - The World, October 2013

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