Standards based grading

By Mr. Matthew Lopez26 November 2013

I CAN!!!• I can explain what Standards Based Grading

is!• I can explain why Standards Based Grading

should be used!• I can effectively use Standards based grading

in my classroom!

gee dang…• Have you ever received a grade that you

think you didn’t deserve???• Take a couple minutes and discuss it amongst

your group members.

What is Standards based Grading?

• Standards based grading is a new view on grading

• Also called progressive education• Focuses more on critical thinking and

creativity

Why Switch?• This is more applicable to life• Boosts creativity• Improves critical thinking skills• Encourages inquiry based thinking

How are we graded?• High Pass• Low Pass• Fail

Who is doing this?• Harvard University• Van Andel Institute

• QPOE2• Modified Scientific Method

Review • What does progressive thinking improve

upon?• Why use a high pass, low pass, fail system?

Activity Time!! • Look at each of the essays that I hand out• Put them in order of High pass, Low pass, Fail• Explain your reasoning for the grades each

one received.

What happened?• What grade did you give intro #1?• What grade did you give intro #2?• What grade did you give intro #3?• What made ____ the best?

I CAN!!!• I can explain what Standards Based Grading

is.• I can explain why Standards Based Grading

should be used. • I can effectively use Standards based grading

in my classroom.

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Harvard Law School Adopts Pass-Fail Grading System. N.p.: Harvard University, 2008. N. pag. Web. 14 Feb. 2013.

Kohn, Alfie. The case against standardized testing: raising the scores, ruining the schools. N.p.: n.p., 2000. 3-16. Google Scholar. Web. 16 Feb. 2013.

Barzun, Jacques. Begin here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning. N.p.: n.p., 1991. 2-4. Google Scholar. Web. 26 Feb. 2013.

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Intro paragraph examples. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://webhome.broward.edu/~dshaw/handouts/The Opening Paragraph.html