WHS Grading Committee

Making the Grade

10/5/21 Making the Grade

Slides from the 10/5 Parent Zoom meeting

Recording of the 10/5 Parent Zoom meeting

Making the Grade - Questions and Answers

Making the Grade - Questions and Answers

On Rethinking Grading

Classroom Standards

I no longer grade my students' work – and I wish I had stopped soonerGrades don’t actually measure learning, and they can increase students’ stress and decrease their motivation. A college professor explains an alternative to grading students’ work.

Teachers second-guess letter grades as they search for a fairer wayTeachers are beginning to think twice about assigning those judgmental A-F grades to students whose learning has been disrupted for two years.

‘Amazing and Very Challenging’: More Educators Rethink Grading | NEABelieving traditional grading is inaccurate and inequitable, more teachers are changing how they evaluate their students’ learning.

How Teachers Are Changing Grading Practices With an Eye on Equity | KQEDJoe Feldman contends many of the earnest practices teachers continue to use are hold-overs from how they were graded and may actually be doing harm to student learning.

WHS Student Perspectives on Grading (May 2021 Responses)

WHS Student Perspectives on Grading (May 2021 Responses)

CT_NESSC-BriefingNo12_What-Is-Mastery-Based-Grading.pdf

CT SDE: Grading - Mastery-Based Learning

The Myth of Average: Todd Rose

Standards Based Grading and the Game of School: Craig Messerman

The Case Against Grades - ASCDI remember the first time that a grading rubric was attached to a piece of my writing… Suddenly all the joy was taken away. I was writing for a grade—I was no longer exploring for me. I want to get that back. Will I ever get that back?<ATTRIB>—Claire, a student (in Olson, 2006)</ATTRIB> Enough has b

Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of gradingPandemic-forced school closures revealed how grade-point systems hurt disadvantaged children, prompting educators to look for ways to bring equity to grading.

Designing a Grading System - Mastery-Based LearningIn every grading system, numbers or letters are merely signifiers, and their meaning is entirely derived from the reliability of the systems used to make a grading determination. In other words, the accuracy, authority, and dependability of all grades depend on the quality of the methods used to award them.

Opinion | My College Students Are Not OKLate assignments, failed tests, sleeping in class: Welcome to the pandemic-era university.

Time to Pull the Plug on Traditional Grading?Supporters of mastery-based grading say it could promote equity

Ignacio Laguarda, a reporter who covers education and more for the Stamford Advocate, has been following the development of Westhill GFE.

Some Stamford teachers love ‘equitable’ grading, but others worry district could ‘impose’ it on themA pilot program at Westhill High School, which utilizes a revamped grading system, was...

Westhill High’s trying a new way to grade students to make it more equitable. Here’s how it works.Some teachers at the high school are trying new techniques, with the goal of keeping...

Page updated

Report abuse