What is standards based grading
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Anonymous
| We left APS b/c pandemic and return to Taylor this year, there are no grades? I read the slides, so basically it’s pass fail? |
Anonymous
| No grades. They have a standard such as student can add at grade level. They either meet the standard, are approaching standard, are developing or something else. It’s useless and I don’t even look at their report cards anymore. |
Anonymous
So A B C? |
Anonymous
| How do they track for middle school? |
Anonymous
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It seems much more detailed?
“ This year I moved to a school that uses standards-based grading. If you don’t know what that is, don’t worry. I didn’t either until six months ago. Basically, standards-based grading means that students don’t receive a class average. Instead, they’re assessed on each standard you teach that term. At my school, grades range from a 1 (does not meet standards) to a 4 (exceeds standards), and report cards are six pages long because each subject has a couple of dozen standards” |
Anonymous
My kid at WMS gets letter grades. He never did at Discovery, and I didn’t bother looking at the report cards. He’s thrilled to have actual grades now, and I have a much better sense of his progress. |
Anonymous
Same. The report cards are now totally useless. It's Meets Expectations, Approaching Mastery, and Developing or something like that. No letters or numbers. They just put the words. The only subject that gets tracked for middle school right now is math and they use math inventory scores, CoGAT and SOLs. I believe they are offering more intensified content in middle school starting next school year. That will probably be based on teacher recommendation? Self placed? No idea. |
Anonymous
Same, my child was really happy to start getting grades and it was interesting how much more motivated he was to do well. He pretty quickly figured out with the standards based report cards in elementary that tests didn't matter, etc. and unfortunately he just didn't work as hard. |
Anonymous
No letter grades. Just a general description of how they’re progressing. Some teachers use an approach that describes how they’re progressing towards an end of school year goal (in other words no student can meet the standard until the end of the school year because they haven’t been assessed on all of the material yet) and others use an approach that describes how they are doing according to where they should be at that point of the school year, so they can meet the standard all year long. It sucks. |
Anonymous
Yep. It’s haphazard at best, useless at worst. Nothing changed on my kid’s “report card” all year. Not a single thing. |
Anonymous
They've been doing this in ACPS for ever. And there are no standards for each of the designations so it's really pointless and meaningless. |
Anonymous
I’m in Loudoun, and this was the approach used for my Kindergartener last year. She was “progressing” in all categories all year until the last report card, where she met the standard for every category. It was annoying not actually knowing how well she was doing, what areas we needed to focus on at home, etc. Add in communication issues with the teacher, and I’ll admit I am not impressed with this grading method. |
Anonymous
| just wait 'til you get to HS, when some teachers use standards based. all of the students I've spoken with have said those classes are the easiest because they just prove themselves once, don't have to maintain. so if they "exceed expectations" at the start, they can slide the rest of the time. alternatively, they can ignore that class until the last minute and then get an exceed expectations. |
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Anonymous
100%. It’s to dumb down the learning. I have one kid who can barely write going into third grade, but he’s on grade level. Yeah sure. |