Handouts are available below.

Big Idea

Are you concerned that science teachers aren’t assessing and giving feedback on content knowledge accurately if they’re using standards based grading? Today, I want to show a sample biology test I created that demonstrates how we can do both – assess content AND competency at the same time.

Episode Notes

Here are a couple of big ideas on how content is assessed in standards-based grading:

1. Use content knowledge to develop the problems that will assess the skill.
2. If a student doesn’t know the knowledge, they won’t be able to demonstrate the skill effectively.
3. Our job is to develop test questions that assess both content and skills.
4. If you’re trying to modify your tests to align with assessing skills and content at the same time, looking over a test you currently use and classifying questions based on the skills you’re trying to assess. If the question doesn’t fit into a category, then modify the question until it does or toss the question and create a new one.  

Resources

Handout(s): Ep94 Handouts – How Content is Assessed in Standards Based Grading

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