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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP teacher. I’m at a standards based grading school and we have more standards to cover and assess this year than we did last year. If your school does regular letter grades than you likely have no idea what your kid is being taught standards wise in a normal year because the grades are basically made up and super subjective. Standards based at least specifics what the students should be learning and how well they are mastering them individually. For example if the standard is comparing fractions and your kid gets developing mastery, and you want to know why, I can show you the data. Ask your A/B/C 3rd grade teacher for specific evidence and let me know what they show you.[/quote]

The have an elementary school student with standards based grading and a middle schooler with letter grades.  It’s actually easier for me to figure out what’s going on with my middle schooler, because I can look at a test of homework, see what was marked wrong, and pretty quickly figure out if my kid doesn’t understand the concept of if they made random careless errors.  None of that requires scheduling conferences with his teachers.  It’s a lot harder to figure out what’s going on with my elementary student without having a conference.  That said, I can appreciate why standards based grading makes more sense for elementary students than letter grades.

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You aren’t understanding. In middle school classes there is a syllabus and you can easily see how the students grades make up the letter grade. No elementary school classes operate like that. That’s why letter grades in elementary are worthless.[/quote]

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