Are you beginning down a data path at your school? Or do you already consider your school to be data rich? Then I have a question for you:
Where does most of your data analysis effort live?
It’s a common question: are we grading equally? And while I don’t like the focus on marks, I can appreciate that calibrated grading ensures proper feedback, helps create a shared vision of the purpose of an assessment, and yes, even helps avoid some potentially heated discussions with parents.
For any educator that has been through an accreditation process, we are regularly asked: “How do your internal assessments correlate with your external assessments?” In simpler terms: “Do students who perform well on your in-class assessments also do well on standardized assessments?” (more…)
One question we’ve been wrestling with, every since we moved to Standards Based Grading is:
“How do we ensure consistency in our grading?” (more…)