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1. Standards based grading gives students, parents, and teachers more detailed information about what the student knows and/or what he or she needs to practice more.
2. Standards based grading measures a student's progress to mastering state objectives for a particular subject. Students are given feedback on which standards they do well and which they need additional help. The students are then able to work to improve their work on standards that did not achieve mastery.
3. Standards based grading is a more positive, growth mindset approach. Students will be focused on mastery of skills and concepts, instead of trying to figure out how many points they need to get a particular grade. This will shift their thinking to more of a growth mindset and what they need to do to learn instead of what they need to do to get a particular grade.

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Great points made about the influence student behavior has on grade outcomes! Also, how empowering for students to know exactly what skill they need to work on instead of cramming overwhelming amounts of information. Instead, they can focus on those small chunks! I imagine that can have many positive outcomes for student behavior and confidence.

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I too enjoyed the school of walk video and how it highlighted the need to have clarity on what 1's, 2's, 3's, and 4's look like across various classroom teachers. The idea of growth mindset is something we talk about regularly in elementary school, and the video shared the perspective of how our current grading system does not reflect the same notion.

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1. SBG does not eliminate letter grades.
2. SBG leads conversations between student and teacher to be "learning focus" instead of "completion focus"
3. Using SBG instead of Assessment based grading - students and parents have a more clear picture of student's strengths and areas of growth relative to specific learning targets.

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You are correct that SBG will require more communication with students to increase their understanding. This will take time; it will also provide an awesome opportunity to get to know our students.

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I agree that SBG will work better for students with extenuating circumstances as it will provide a clearer picture of what each student needs to do to learn a skill.  I also agree this system should prove to motivate students more intrinsically.

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3 Learned Aspects of SBG - Jennifer Major

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3 Learned Aspects of SBG - Jennifer Major

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SBG reflects an accurate account of where a student's understanding lies for a specific standard. Since SBG measures progress, students, parents, and teachers know how a student is progressing and which skills need refinement and/or re-teaching. Specific feedback has been shown to be the best way to advance learning. I also learned how to convert a 4 point gradebook to a letter grade. Lastly, I have a clearer picture of how zeros on assignments do not indicate a student's understanding of a skill.

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I agree that we need to have a clear understanding on what a level 1,2, 3 or 4 looks like and how at the high school level, this translates onto the student's report card.

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I totally agree with you about the fact that we assess based on behaviors.  I had not really thought about it and was not happy when we could not give 0s anymore at the high school.  This has made me see that when we do that, we are not focusing on the academic achievement, but behaviors.

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To (3 things I learned) no name from Karen Murphy

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To (3 things I learned) no name from Karen Murphy

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I agree with you about the report cards needing to be in line with the grading system. It seems like it is pointless to go through the effort of designing a SBG system if the report cards are still based on a traditional model. I also really like the idea of the students becoming more aware of what their goals are and keeping track of their own progress as to if they have mastered a standard. I think it would make students more invested and motivated to learn.

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I have wondered how the re-learning and re-testing look in a classroom. When are you able to reteach the material to those who did not get it the first time around? How do you determine how long to wait to retest? What happens when the class has moved on to harder or different topics?

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3 Things I learned - Karen Murphy                                One of the most important take aways about SBG is that just like in the "school of walk" video, traditional grades do not give us an accurate picture of what the student knows. What the teacher is assessing compared to the teacher next door makes traditional grading unfair. The fact that an average does not indicate where a student is now and does not support the growth mindset. What I think needs to be addressed is how teachers who are using the same standards can uniformly decide what a level 1, 2, 3 or 4 looks like. The way we measure the standard or determine proficiency needs to be conistent in order for SBG to work.   

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3 Things I learned - Karen Murphy                                One of the most important take aways about SBG is that just like in the "school of walk" video, traditional grades do not give us an accurate picture of what the student knows. What the teacher is assessing compared to the teacher next door makes traditional grading unfair. The fact that an average does not indicate where a student is now and does not support the growth mindset. What I think needs to be addressed is how teachers who are using the same standards can uniformly decide what a level 1, 2, 3 or 4 looks like. The way we measure the standard or determine proficiency needs to be conistent in order for SBG to work.   

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-Karen Murphy

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We are in the process of setting up the learning standards using the SOL standards as well. In the past, I have assessed on standards that the students should have shown mastery. I feel that just because they "learned" it in 8th grade, it does mean that they have retained what they learn. I need help to do that and still have the students/parents know that I am "grading" them fairly.

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Learning and Grading for Mastery- Victoria Kelsey

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Learning and Grading for Mastery- Victoria Kelsey

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When it comes to standards based grading there are many positives. Here are my take away tidbits from the videos I watched (Grading in PWCPS and SBG using Gradebook Examples).

1. In traditional learning, students are given a numerical or letter grade for an overall assessment, in SBG students earn grades based on smaller chunks, or standards. This way they are able to know EXACTLY what standards or content they need to work more with.
2. There is no grading for behaviors. Students who miss assignments are not penalized, as long as they are still able to master the content.
3. SBG can motivate students to learn to reach mastery rather than to "get an A". Students become invested in their own learning, rather than just a grade.

Goodness, there are so many more benefits. By implementing SBG you can authentically assess students based on their learning, rather than on how well they "play school". In the last year, we've learned so much about students' needs and barriers. SBG allows those students that have extenuating circumstances to throve alongside their peers, rather than seeing low grades because they don't have access to the same time/ materials as their peers.

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I agree with you about giving a letter grade at the high school level. I would like to see that a B from one math teacher is the same as a B from another math teacher. I also would like to see it being consistent across any content area. For Example a B in math has the same meaning as a B in English.

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1.  I learned that SBG is a reflection of where the students are, not where they've been.
2.  I learned that SBG focuses on what students have learned instead of earning a grade.
3. I learned that SBG has the potential of motivating students to want to learn by doing the work instead of doing the work as requested by their teachers.

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Hey Linda!
I did SBG in PWCS, and still earned letter grades. We did not work on a 1-4 grading system as many school districts do. I liked the way that the gradebook was explained in the video, "Standards Based Grading with Grading Examples" from the list of videos that was shared with us.

The way that I do SBG, at the high school level, is to group all my SOLs standards into Learning targets. Those learning targets have the SOL attached in the form of "I can" statements. Each assignment, notes sheets, practice is tagged with the associated learning target(s). Once assessed students go back to those specific assignments to work on their relearning, if needed.

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The first thing I learned is that Standards Based Grading is based on where the student is in his/her learning and what the student has accomplished or what the student needs to work on further. The 2nd thing I learned is SBG can make the students more motivated to learn. There will need to be more student- teacher communication to find out how to further help the student through the specific objectives and standards that need to be mastered. The 3rd thing I learned ans was concerned about is how it translates into the current grading system. Since I teach at the high school level, we still need to give a grade to the students and this will have to be a grade that everyone understands.