Rethinking Grading: Meaningful Assessment for Standards-Based Learning Paperback – Import, 13 July 2015

I really hope that many teachers and parents read this book. It explains very well the undeniable benefits of standard-based grading. The sbg will help all students of all levels in many ways. As humans, we are very different from each other, which means that we learn differently. The sbg will help with this matter, to benefit mainly our students (and teachers too because it is satisfactory to know our students are learning for real), which will in the end benefit our society as well by producing highly capable professionals. A must read.

Even though it was well written and has many good ideas, but the concept that school is only for academic learning, is perhaps one short coming of modern society. Having a solely academic standards based evaluation system does not prepare young people for life. The traditional more holistic approach better prepares students for success in the real world. Of course when the grades are inflated to the extent that they do not represent their academic ability then of course the educators and administrators need to set up guidelines, but to remove effort, attitude, participation from the grades will not prepare students for the job market.

I am a high school English teacher, and I’ve been looking to reform my grading practices. I ordered several books at the same time that had been recommended by a colleague. This books is by far the best of the group. It has great background info on how our traditional system of grading came to be and research-based reasons for why it needs to change. It has has great practical ideas for how to implement standards-based grading into the classroom. If you’re looking to switch to standards- based grading, this is the book for you!

More theories of how to change something in education. If it is like most theories, then it will be around for a while and then go away. Nothing wrong with the concept, but effective use in practice, especially throughout high school levels with college applications upcoming could be a different story.

This is a go-to text for standards-based grading.