Comprehensive Article List

Overview Articles:

• Let’s Give Up the Search for Best Practices in Grading

• Don’t Get Rid of Grades: Change Their Meaning & Consequences

• Classic Mistakes in Grading Reform and How to Avoid Them

• Multiple Grades: The First Step to Improving Grading and Reporting

• What's Worth Fighting Against in Grading?

• Does This Count?

• Solving the Problem of Zeros in Grading

• Time to Pull the Plug on Traditional Grading?

• Our Grades Were Broken: Overcoming Barriers and Challenges to Implementing Standards-Based Grading

• Losing As and Fs: What works for schools implementing standards-based grading?

• Exploring the Pros and Cons of Standards Based Grading

• Four Critical Standards-Based Grading Challenges and Their Solutions

• A Case for Standards Based Grading and Reporting

• Evidence Based Grading Practices

Research:

• What does the research say about Standards Based Grading

• The Effects of Standards Based Grading and Strategies for Implementation

• Is Standards-Based Grading Effective?

• Grade That Mean Something: Kentucky Develops Standards Based Report Cards

• Developing a Statewide, Standards-Based Student Report Card:  A Review of the Kentucky Initiative

• Districts Make Progress—and Encounter Resistance—as They Update Grading Models

Notable Article Collections and Resources:

• Dr. Matt Townsley: All Things Standards Based Grading

• Dr. Thomas Guskey: Published Research Articles

• Join the Montana Proficiency Based Education Community hosted by Montana State University-Bozeman: https://www.montana.edu/ehhd/pbe/index.html

Feedback and Student Motivation:

• Grades Versus Comments: Research on Student Feedback

• Grades Fail at Motivating Students. Intrinsic Motivation Works Better.

• Positive and Negative Incentives in the Classroom: An Analysis of Grading Systems and Student Motivation 

• Why Focusing on Grades is a Barrier to Learning

• The impact of grades on student motivation

• The Effect of Separating Grades from Feedback on Student Motivation

Proficiency and Competency Based Education:

• What is Proficiency Based Education

• Proficiency Based Education Literature Review

• Competency Based Education