Standard-Based Grading Offers a Different Model of Assessing Student Learning

Some school districts, including ones in Maine, New Mexico, Iowa and Oregon, are shifting to standards-based grading, where ...
EdSurge

Next Generation Science Standards-Based Assessments Are Coming. How Should Teachers Prepare?

Assessments based on the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are coming to many states. To date, 18 states have adopted NGSS. Other states have or are adopting new science standards that are ...
Education Week

What Is Standards-Based Grading, and How Does It Work?

The Northern Cass school district in North Dakota last spring graduated its first class of seniors who went through most of high school without receiving letter grades. Instead, their report cards ...
EdSurge

Standards-Based Grading: Hope vs. Reality

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 ...
The Washington Post

Study provides rare control group review of standards-based grading craze

Given my complaining about the dearth of control group research in the spreading, and I think troublesome, standards-based grading movement, I must give special attention to a new study that reveals ...
Connecticut Post

Standards-based grading offers a different model of assessing student learning in the classroom

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jerrid Kruse, Drake University (THE CONVERSATION) Some school districts, including ...