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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Standards based grading could eliminate excessive homework and Zs for missing assignments. [/quote]
Actual standards based grading doesn't focus on specific assignments going into the gradebook and somehow converting that to % or letter grades. We actually had standards based grading in elementary school for many years, and parents hated it. They couldn't handle knowing exactly how much smarter Larla was compared to Larlo, when the feedback they got was their student was meeting standard. Somehow parents think there is some meaningful difference between an A and a B, when the main difference between those grades in ES and MS is usually organizational and attentiveness to details.

I think that any skill based subject could be a great candidate for standards based grading, especially math. Ever use KhanAcademy.org? It has great granularity about math skills, grouped into strands, and organized into courses. Each skill has multiple levels from practice to mastery. And you can see how students are doing in each skill in a couple of ways. I would love for MCPS to actually shift instruction so that kids, teachers, and parents were focused on that level of standards based progress monitoring, rather than thinking completing some homework and taking quizzes and tests that may or may not be strongly aligned to the standards is really a good measure of what students know. But the real issue is that students who only partially know a concept, then get moved to the next grade level and start out behind. Over time, they fall further and further behind because they have gaps in knowledge and don't fully grasp new content.

tl;dr I would support standards based grading in ES and MS for Math and English, if we actually track the standards and not attempt to turn that into a letter grade.[/quote]

MCPS still uses standards-based grading for ES.[/quote]

More info: https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/schools/elementary-schools/h-o/luxmanores/uploadedfiles/staff/grading20and20reporting20parent20information.pdf[/quote]

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