Most educators think that A through F or numeric grades aren’t a “very effective” way to reflect what students know and can do. So, what is the benefit of those systems? Why are these systems still in ...

One ongoing challenge in education is finding the most effective way to evaluate student performance, whether through traditional percentage and letter grades or emerging nontraditional methods. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is a photo of a teacher grading papers. Before Thomas Guskey became a leading academic expert on grading and assessments, he ...

Grading in most classrooms remains tied to rubrics devised by individual teachers and rooted in century-old practices. Recently, amid a broader national trend, grading systems in schools have come ...

Rick: Joe, we had a fascinating conversation a few weeks ago about “equitable grading.” As I noted, I’m pretty skeptical, given that I’ve encountered it as an attack on rigor and traditional academic ...

One of North Carolina’s largest school system has gone old school in how it grades its elementary school students. Johnston County was among the many North Carolina school districts that switched to ...

Students at elementary schools across the Jefferson City School District have just received report cards that look a bit different from what they've seen before. That's because elementary grades have ...

WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, Ohio – For decades, K-12 students have gotten report cards, loaded with letter grades, indicating their performance in each subject. But times are changing. A’s B’s and C’s (and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of ...

Standards based grading, or SBG, is a grading system that measures students’ progress towards mastery of specific learning goals. These goals or standards are developed at the state level. Our ...

The traditional grading system ASU students are accustomed to is changing to a plus-minus system that will affect every student in 2003. The Academic Senate approved a plus-minus grading system 10 ...