(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jerrid Kruse, Drake University (THE CONVERSATION) Some school districts, including ...

The Northern Cass school district in North Dakota last spring graduated its first class of seniors who went through most of high school without receiving letter grades. Instead, their report cards ...

More schools are moving from traditional point-based grades to standards-based grading, focusing on what students actually learn. This approach gives teachers and students clearer insight into ...

Unless states move quickly to fill the void between academic standards and their use in classrooms, current efforts to raise student achievement could fizzle. That was the message of a two-day ...

YPSILANTI, MI - Ypsilanti Community Schools is moving toward a standards-based grading model at its high school that focuses on students’ progress toward mastering specific concepts without ...

Given my complaining about the dearth of control group research in the spreading, and I think troublesome, standards-based grading movement, I must give special attention to a new study that reveals ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Airasian, P. W. ( 1991). Classroom assessment. New York: McGraw Hill. American ...

Education in the United States operates within a complex system. It is difficult to focus on any particular component without considering how it is influenced by and, in turn, influences other parts ...

Some school districts, including ones in Maine, New Mexico, Iowa and Oregon, are shifting to standards-based grading, where students are graded on the skills and concepts they learn instead of points ...

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