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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The end of term assessments determine the grade in a purely objective fashion.[/quote]

But that's not what's really happening. At Madison, content only counts as one "skill" and it gets replaced throughout the year which makes no sense to me. Just because a student gets an A on a test, it doesn’t mean the student understood the previous material, and it doesn’t mean the student will get an A in the future. You can say the focus is on skills, but there is also content. The content should be tested every single time for every single unit and the content grade should stay in the grade book. I don't understand how skills-based grading reflects what a student knows in science and math and "a purely objective fashion" would mean that none of the skills grades are dropped and replaced.

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Unfortunately implementation appears to be haphazard and uneven among and within school districts with the rush to do this post pandemic to account for the current racial reckoning, learning loss, inequities, etc. The intentions however are admirable. Skills based grading is still in a somewhat experimental phase in terms of what works or doesn’t, but the common thread is the end of term assessment which matters more than any other. Initial studies show that the achievement gap is reduced which is quite remarkable, so less As and less Fs and more Bs, Cs, and Ds. Some school districts in fact no longer use grades at all and instead grade with language describing the level of mastery attained. [/quote]

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