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Caitlin Stich - Standards Based Grading in Art 

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Caitlin Stich - Standards Based Grading in Art 

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This youtube video is about using standards based grading in art. This video producer mentions that his district uses a Performance Indicator Scale that does not include students who go above and beyond and only students who submit nothing can receive a 0. On each rubric that is passed out to the students also includes the Performance Indicator Scale and does not include behavior based grading, if behavior is affecting the student it will be reflected in other areas of the students work. This video also answers one of my questions which is "what about sketchbooks?" I like that this teacher uses one grade that is consistently updated/replaced after the sketchbook has been assessed again.

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What does standards-based grading look like in visual arts?

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This video was created for the Standards-Based Grading Conference on April 24, 2013 in Cedar Rapids, IA (www.tinyurl.com/sbgconference)

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https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/What-I-Have-Learned/Category/Gradebooks-65546

Guideline 5: Keep Records That Can Be Updated Easily - “Grade In Pencil!”

This resource provides teachers with an opportunity to purchase an Excel Spreadsheet that is aligned to the Common Core State Standards in grades 2 - 5.  I believe that utilizing technology to support the large task of maintaining accurate records leads to the development of a clear picture of what students already know.  When the picture of student knowledge is developed, a plan of action can be developed to fill in the gaps of the knowledge that is yet to be mastered.

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http://youngteacherlove.com/walking-through-standards-based-grading3/

This is the third of a three part blog post detailing how this teacher has moved towards standards based grading. It addresses many of the guidelines, especially focusing on "Using Performance Standards." This teacher emphasizes the importance of guiding your planning around the standards that your objective pertains to and grading based on those standards in particular.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7m4762pjH8
We are a district that uses Standards Based Grading. This is a video that I showed my parents at Curriculum Night this year. Even though they are fairly accustomed to a standards based grading report card, I find that many parents still think in terms of letter grades. I often hear, "Well, does the meets mean they got an A?"  I think it is very important that parents are clear on what exactly standards based grading is, and how it benefits their child in the classroom and their understanding of their child's progress at home. This video brings clarity to the purpose of standards based grading, and helps parent's understand how it is linked to the performance standards that children must master in each grade level. Which falls in line with O'Connor's grading standard #1 - Relate grading procedures to the intended learning goals. I found the video helpful, because it was only a little over 3 minutes, but gave a very easy to understand explanation of what standards based grading is, and how it is a more meaningful way to measure a student's progress.

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http://sbgvideos.weebly.com/
There are many videos to watch about SBG on this site. There are videos on getting started using SBG, content specific videos and videos for administration as well. This website is beneficial to those of that are just getting started with the SBG way of life. I haven't watched all of the videos on the site. The video I related to was a getting started video. My district already uses SBG for First Grade. But I would like to utilize more of O'Connor's guidelines in my SBG. I like to look back on how to get started to make sure that I am on the right path. This one video includes O'Connor's guideline "Crunch" numbers carefully, involve students and use quality assessments. Since there are so many videos, I'm sure all of the guidelines are included throughout.

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http://www.nctm.org/Publications/Mathematics-Teaching-in-Middle-School/Blog/Promoting-Growth-Mindset-through-Assessment/

I found this resource on the NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) website.  This resource contains links to one teacher's artifacts and blog in addition to links to other resources for setting up Standards Based Grading in your classroom. Included in the artifacts are sample mastery quizzes (along with retake quizzes) and a sample of the learning targets for Algebra and Geometry along with the scale to use 5-10. This resource aligns to guideline #7: use quality assessments and properly record evidence of achievement.

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This resource is how a teacher has created a system to effectively enter grades using standards based grading. The blogger, and teacher, shows how he has used logs, that can be student generated, to effectively measure standards which have many differing assessments.

Patrick Haaker

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This resource is focused on EL students and grading.  Grading for EL students is always more complicated and many ELs will not always master a standard that matches their grade level.  In reference to O'Connors theory that grading should be supportive of learning, this resource discusses ways for EL students to show proficiency.  In addition, it discusses how to carefully determine if the language barrier is the cause of problem.  In math, science, etc. students should be able to show mastery of content that doesn't reflect the inability to understand English.  We just need to offer accommodations.
Joy Irwin

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What better way to get O'Connor tips than to go to O'Connor's site?  -OR--How about seeing snip-its from his slide presentation at a Fall training institute that he presented?  I find these tools interesting because it is digital and searchable media for a quick reference.  Personally, I teach Careers and Tech and I am slightly hard pressed to find sources that would fit my particular need.  I rely on www.planbook.com to at least keep standards in mind as I plan my days.

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This article is really great because it gives you a step-by-step idea of how to implement standards-based grading into your curriculum. This article basically is from the teacher's point of view and she gives a rundown of how she started to implement standards-based learning into her curriculum and each step she had to take to get there. This article also comes complete with tables and examples of how this teacher plugged in her results to see whether or not a student was meeting these standards.  I feel like this website could benefit people because it gives a step-by-step view of how someone actually implemented standard-based grading, but to me it is comfortable because I saw something very similar to this at my practicum while I was student teaching.  It really is a great way to get a snapshot at who is understanding the standards as well as who is having trouble with a particular standard or a group of standards.

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http://alwaysformative.blogspot.com/2010/06/sbg-implementation-tracking-progress.html
This blog has a lot of helpful resources about standards-based grading. It is organized in a way that was helpful for me-very step-by-step. This particular link leads to a page that was especially helpful for me in thinking about how to implement O'Connor's guideline about providing multiple attempts at summative assessment for students. The author details how he assesses students and teaches them to track their progress immediately and set new goals. Although he is an upper grade teacher, I found the tactics he described useful to my work as a third grade teacher and can modify some of the ideas to work in a lower grade classroom.

Beth Herring

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http://www.redorbit.com/news/education/1141679/standardsbased_grading_and_reporting_a_model_for_special_education/

This article touches on how different grading can be for special education students. It discusses the importance of using grading adapations for the special education students, especially those in a general education classroom (inclusion). It encourages extra "points" for students who have achieved goals in their IEP for that class in addition to the classroom work because more than likely, they are not able to achieve the grade level standard achievement. It is often done with accommodations and modifications.

This resource addressing the first guideline of "base grades on, and provide grades for the intended learning goal."

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https://www.myon.com
In kindergarten it is difficult to have students go on the computer and takes time since they have to log in with an email and password and don't even know how tot write or identify their names let alone identify and find letters on a keyboard, but anyway eventually they use this website where they listen to books. Teachers can create a list of books to have the students choose from and we change the lists of books according to what we are currently learning in social studies, science, or literacy. Teachers can view the books the students read and their is even a short test after the books but I do not sign the tests to my students until towards the end of the year and only my high students that are reading to read and answer the questions.

Yamaira Acevedo

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http://www.kiddom.co/
Kiddom is a site designed to help teachers plan, assess, and analyze student data. Teachers can set up online assignments for students to turn in work electronically. While setting up the assignment, teachers can select which standards they intend to assess based upon grade and subject. Teachers can also add ready-made rubrics or create their own for assessing student achievement. Students can view the rubrics and standards and refer back to them as they complete the assignment.

This site lends itself to O'Connor's first guideline, which essentially states that grades should be based upon and provided for the intended learning outcomes. With standards-based grading and rubrics for students to view expectations on beforehand, this site provides tools for effective and accurate methods for assessment. One of the other aspects of the site that I've found immensely helpful is that student reports can be generated based on their mastery of the standards. These are visible to parents and students and serve to facilitate communication, help students set academic goals, and keep students accountable for their performance.

Jessica Brown

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.masteryconnect.CommonCore&hl=en

The Common Core Application can be downloaded on any andriod, iPhone, or other electronic device. It is a great and simple resource to have all the Common Core standards at the click of your finger. It is a free app that includes simple ways to view each Common Core standard. It is a great reference for parents, students, and teachers to know what is expected of each student to master and how each grade level connects in learning. You can find standards by subject, grade, and subject category. It includes Math standards K-12 and Language Arts standards K-12. There are examples of each standard on what students should be able to do. This may jog your creativity on what types of assessments to administer with purposeful standards based grading. This app also includes resources for each subject area, ELL application, and SPED application. There is also a Master Connect option that provides resources for formative assessments, curriculum planning, benchmarking, and PLCs.

This resource addresssing the first guideline of "base grades on, and provide grades for, the intended learning goal. This app benefits teachers by providing them with the appropriate grade-level and subject area standards along with examples and assessment/planning resources based on each standard.

- Michelle Adamo

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https://youtu.be/TJBGQ7_LSVA

This video is a small overview of how to use standard based grading if you are new to it like I am. It lets you wrap your head around what the standards are for what needs to be done for grading and reporting. This video goes step by step on what you should expect with your grading and what you should not be doing for grading, such as giving zero's for not turning in work, but focusing on assessments, feedback and goal setting.

Christie Bell

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www.discoveryeducation.com
My school district, Joliet 86, has purchased this for the Science and Social Studies teachers as our curriculum is now a web-based curriculum. The district's five year plan is to go to a 1 to 1 technology for each student. In other words, a 6th grader would be assigned a computer and keep that computer until they graduate from 8th grade. This is a great resource as the activities are all aligned to not only the Illinois Standards, but the NGSS science standards as well. You are able to use the activities from the web site itself and you can have the web site grade the activity as well.

Robert Pollard
6th Grade Science Teacher
Gompers Junior High School
Joliet School District 86

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn_sCLoQNVs

This tedtalk is a brief overview of standards based grading. The teachers shares how they eliminated the use of 0 and how they make standards based grading in their classroom effective. O'Connor talks directly about the 0 in a grading policy.
He also references other resources we can use. He is very generic and concise! He is a good example to reference if you want to know more about standards based grading and see how you can implement it right away.

Amanda Hovey

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https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/kiddom-standards-based-grading/

This resource is an online software system that allows you to track student's mastery of standards. You can choose to create homework assignments, exit tickets, and even summative assessments on Kiddom. When you create an assignment you can either use your own assignment that you have already created or you can choose to use an assignment from an outside source. They use the examples of Khan Academy, CK-12, and IXL. You then choose what standards are being assessed and can choose to assess the assignment by points or by a rubric. Once an assignment is graded you can see the class mastery of all standards based on all assignments that have been graded. This is updated with each additional assignment. Students can easily see what their mastery level is for each standard they have been assessed on over the course of the year. This allows teachers to see where their students are at quickly as a whole class and individually.

This applies to O’Connor’s idea that students should not be awarded a letter or percent as a grade. They should understand what concepts they have mastered and what concepts they still need to improve on. This program allows teachers to set up all assignments and activities in a way that monitors student’s work to show their mastery level on each skill. It also allows students to see the skills that they have mastered and the skills that they still need to improve on.

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Jacqueline Gerry
Masteryconnect.com

This resource is an online software system that is used to track student’s mastery levels of standards. It can be used for grades K-8. This site is very user friendly. Teachers or district administrators can add assessments. The assessments can be taken on the computer or ipad, on a bubble sheet and scanned in, or the teacher can imput the test results. You can use the site to track student growth in a particular standard. It can also be shared with parents, so that they can see how their student is progressing through a standard, in real time.
It allows our district to offer clear policies and procedures and allow meaningful learning for the students.
It will benefit teachers, because it makes the overwhelming task of standards based reporting easy! You simple add the assessment, under the standard it reflects and it does all the work for you.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ3njSgYExs

This video provides an overview of this standards-based assessment tool for teachers. If moving towards SBG, typically grading no longer applies, and there has to be a meaningful and efficient way for teachers to obtain data for students based on their progress towards a standard. Edulastic allows for teachers to create common assessments standards driven, and then extrapolate data for each particular student and/or standard. This allows teachers to assess progress and still have assessment pieces to speak to with parents. The best part is, the teacher creates the assessments, so it is truly reflective of instruction was provided.
This applies to O'Connor's principle that grading is not essential to learning in the sense that using a program like Edulastic allows for teachers to monitor progress towards a standard, not simply provide an achievement score of 8 out of 10. Students need to understand their progress and learning of a concept to be more successful, not that they earned a 90%. The smartest student in the class, still has more he or she can learn, and if they are showing mastery in a standard at their grade level, we can have them work towards learning the next level in the standard- or go deeper.