Grading: Part 2 -
Based on standards based grading, I revamped my grade book. Well, I created a skeleton grade book to experiment with and try next fall. I am not the type to wait – I like to try things as soon as I am ready, however, since there are less than 2 months left of school, it is not possible to change the structure under which I grade students. Imagine walking into a classroom and say, “I just wanted to let you all know that I’ve completely changed how I will be grading you from this point forth and the grading structure will completely affect your current grade.” Students would be in an uproar (I’m guessing those who have earned high marks at this point would NOT like the option of potentially lowering their grade). Therefore, next fall – I will see how the process of standards based grading plays out.
Until then, let me describe how I created my skeleton grade books (one for Foods 1 and one for Foods 2). It’s pretty easy, in fact. What you need is a list of your current assignments/projects and a copy of your standards and a critical mind of what you truly are assessing. I began by typing all my major national standards and language arts standards on a sheet of paper (if yours are electronic, I’d recommend copy and pasting). At this point, it was necessary to weigh which categories/standards were to be given more weight. I thought the standards we spent the most time on in our department (i.e. nutrition which is almost a month long) would likewise be given a similar value in weight. I then went through my assignments and figured out which assignments fell under which standard. I then made decisions about which assignments/project were formative and which were summative. The formative assignments were still put under the proper standards but were given no points assigned to them and were simply marked with a *T (turned in). At this time, I haven’t changed the point values for the larger assessments but I know I need to reevaluate the rubrics I have on file for them to better reflect the overall standards and use a 4 point scale. *Example
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