District
Evidence-based
Grading Practices
District Vision
Fountain-Fort Carson School District Eight believes that the process of providing students with a summative evaluation of their mastery of academic standards, also know as assigning a grade, is a complex process that should produce hope, optimism, and agency within the student learner.
Evidence-Based Grading Components
Process Criteria
How Have Students Demonstrated Learning Skills and Work Habits During Learning?
Includes extended learning goals related to essential skills
Ensures students self-reflect on progress and, and compare with teacher evaluation of progress, use consensus to determine mastery of skills
Focus on growth over time and quality feedback
Communicated and reported using 0 - 4 point scales, rubrics, quality feedback, or descriptive ratings
Assessment as and for Learning
Progress Criteria
How Much Have Students Grown and Improved by Standard?
Formative and interim evaluation of student progress of standards based learning targets and success criteria
Growth and progress during learning
Communicated and reported using quality feedback, rubrics, 0 - 4 point scales
Assessment as and for Learning
Product Criteria
To What Extent have Students Mastered Standards?
Calibration of levels of academic rigor and mastery, assessment of learning
Common evidence of mastery across a grade level or course
Summative grades reflect distinct levels of mastery in student learning
Culminating demonstrations of student learning
Communicated and reported using 0 - 4 point scale or letter grades
Assessment of Learning
Formative Assessment and Feedback Resources