Product Overview
Implement standards-based grading practices that accurately and equitably report student achievement!
Standards-based education poses a variety of challenges for grading and reporting practices. This edited volume examines critical issues in standards-based grading and provides specific suggestions for improving policies and practices at the school and classroom levels. The chapters:
- Describe traditional school practices that inhibit the implementation of standards-based grading
- Address how teachers can assign fair and accurate grades to English language learners and students with special needs
- Examine legal issues related to grading
- Discuss why report card grades and large-scale assessment scores may vary
- Offer communication strategies with parents
