Proficiency Based Grading and Proficiency Based Learning are two rather new terms that have come to light in Vermont in the last several years. Proficiency Based Grading is a system represented through a rubric that shows where a student is in terms of learning targets, and what needs to be demonstrated at each level. The purpose of Proficiency Based Grading is to increase equity and individuality in one's education. In 2013 Vermont passed Act 77, a law requiring Vermont schools to implement Proficiency Based Grading and personalized learning in their education system by the year 2020.

Some schools across Vermont have already started implementing Proficiency Based Grading. We set out to find educators, teachers, administrators, and students involved in Proficiency Based Grading to find out what they think of these new changes happening in their schools as a way to have a better understanding of this new education reform.