Rethinking Letter Grades: A Five-Step Approach for Aligning Letter Grades to Learning StandardsAuthors, Caren Cameron and Kathleen Gregory, offer a practical five-step process for arriving at letter grades that moves away from collecting a string of marks and calculating a grade. They offer an alternative assessment method by examining a wide variety of assessment tools (rating scales, scoring keys, rubrics, test scores, observation records, discussion notes, symbols, portfolio collections, and more) and match the student evidence with a description of achievement. |
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Focus on Numbers | 7 |
Focus on Learning | 13 |
Focus on Working It Through | 21 |
Focus on Questions | 32 |
Focus on Personal Findings | 47 |
Descriptive Language for Learning Maps | 54 |
Article Arriving at Letter Grades Get Closer to the Learning | 60 |
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