In light of new student and teacher expectations that the Common Core State Standards will require, Recess blogger Scott Goldstein advocates for teachers to consider a new type of grading: grading for proficiency.
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-- "Let's go back to that 55 percent example for a minute, and let's say it was an essay written for English language arts. In this case, it's very possible that the student was assessed on several things: Maybe the teacher gave points for an on-topic response, for making a strong argument, for capitalization and punctuation, and for organization. The paper might be so full of red ink that the student crumples it up in a ball before he has a chance to look, but that 55 percent could very well mean the student laid out a strong argument that was on topic, but an organizational mess with few stops for punctuation along the way. In other words, the student mastered two of the four skills. Why not tell him that instead?"
Read the entire post, "Reaching Students by Ditching Points: A Revolution in Grading" and get some helpful hints on grading for proficiency here.
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