Handouts are available below.

Big Idea

How do we set up a Standards-Based grade book that reflects the standards but isn’t time consuming to assess and report on? Answer: form categories that combine similar or overlapping standards.

Episode Notes

Here are a couple of big ideas from the video:

1. A Standards-Based Grading marks book has categories that would reflect learning standards (ie. skills). This provides a better picture of what a student can or cannot do – but it can be time consuming to assess and report on each competency regularly throughout the term.

2. Standards that overlap significantly or are similar could be combined to form larger categories in a grade book. For example, we initially combined two skills – (1) evaluating with (2) applying and innovating – under one category in our grade book. Both skills we combined under one category we felt were considered higher order skills that would be easier to develop assessments for together.

3. However, do not combine too many standards together. Categories that are too broade doesn’t give much information as to what students are good at and what they are weak at.

Resources

Handout(s): Ep99 – Making a More Efficient Standards-Based Grade Book

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