Handouts are available below.

Big Idea

In Standards Based Grading, teachers assess student mastery of skills using a proficiency scale (ie. rubric). But, one thing teachers struggle with is how to convert an overall percentage – which they get from assignments and tests – to a rubric. In other words, what would a student’s proficiency be across multiple science skills if they have an overall mark of 80%? Answer: overall percentages can’t be converted to communicate mastery of individual skills (ie. standards).

Episode Notes

Here are a couple of big ideas from the episode:

1. An overall percentage – which is traditionally determined by averaging assignments and tests – don’t communicate how well a student performs on individual skills.
2. Instead, we should change our marks books to record proficiency of skills. Then, we align our assignments or tests to assess one or two skills. As we collect and mark more assignments and tests aligned to these standards, then we’ll know how each student is doing for each standard.

Resources

Handout(s): Ep91 Handouts – Can we Use Percentages in Standards Based Grading to Find Proficiencies?

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