Grading Documents

Competency-Based Grading reflected in Gradebook

Competency-Based Grading reflected in Classroom

Example Assignment

Final Result

Common Misconceptions:

• Standards-Based Grading Replaces Content with a skills-only emphasis
  • My standards have content criteria in them (determine figurative language, etc.)
  • The texts are a vehicle to the skills; you need both
• SBG means that you can't assign grades for student work habits
  • Yup - okay, but not really
    • I assign grades for mastery of standards but they need those good habits in order to succeed. If anything, this causes them to seek out better, more efficient habits since, if they don't achieve mastery, the do it again. And again. The punishment for not doing you work is doing your work.
• Moving to SBG means throwing everything out and starting from scratch
  • I was already building lessons around the standards; what changed was how I graded those assignments.