Assignments and the associated grades represent one of the most powerful tools in our teaching repertoire. It takes great care and precision to design assessments, and how we measure and translate ...

Credit/No Credit: Students may choose to take a course to earn credit/no credit rather than a grade. No more than one course per term and two courses in a year may be taken on a credit/no credit basis ...

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 ...

School systems are struggling with falling test scores post-COVID. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the U.S. has seen the largest drop in math scores for 13-year-olds 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 ...

Conversations and grading policies that reflect more equitable practices will hopefully continue to evolve as stakeholders understand more about student needs According to a recent study, grading is ...

An empty classroom at Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto on April 3, 2020. Phoro by Magali Gauthier. “Evidence-based” grading, a grading system that focuses on a student’s growth rather than test ...

St. Joseph Parish School, 32946 Electric Blvd. in Avon Lake, which is part of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, is making strides in educational innovation by embracing standards-based grading. St.

According to a recent study, grading is one of the least stressful activities early career teachers have to complete. Grading is time consuming, however, and more grading-related questions are popping ...