Benefits
- Distinguish between standards-based and standards-referenced grading, and examine the basis of each.
- Understand the research and reasoning for standards-based grading, and read other educators accounts of applying it in their schools.
- Examine current grading practices, and identify ways to ensure grades accurately reflect students strengths and weaknesses.
- Discover how to improve student achievement through meaningful, measurable, and accurate reporting.
- Address the role of exceptional learners students with special needs, English learners, and gifted and talented students in the assessment process.