How to Grade for Learning

Linking Grades to Standards

Implement standards-based grading practices that help students succeed!

Classroom assessment methods should help students develop to their full potential, but meshing traditional grading practices with students’ achievement on standards has been difficult. Making lasting changes to grading practices requires both knowledge and willpower. Discover eight guidelines for good grading, recommendations for practical applications, and suggestions for implementing new grading practices as well as:

?The why’s and the how-to’s of implementing standards-based grading practices
?Tips from 48 nationally and internationally known authors and consultants
?Additional information on utilizing level scores rather than percentages
?Reflective exercises
?Techniques for managing grading more efficiently