Grades are a standard part of the American educational system that most students and teachers take for granted. But what if ...

Teachers and school leaders can work together to ensure that report cards function as trustworthy indicators of what students ...

A rubric is an evaluation tool that identifies criteria relevant to an assignment and describes levels of performance expectations for the assignment or other student work. Grading rubrics communicate ...

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 ...

Grades are a well-established part of the K-12 education system that, in most school districts, play a decisive role in students’ academic standing. But what goes into the single letter or number that ...

This past school year, standards-based grading and learning was fully implemented at Battle Mountain and Eagle Valley high schools. Over the past several years, Eagle County School District has ...

Schools have tried a combination of moves—including in- and after-school tutoring, an emphasis on social-emotional well-being, and summer school —to get learning levels back to where they were before ...

For many professors, grading student work is the least enjoyable part of their jobs. “None of us get into teaching to grade,” says Renée Link, a professor of teaching in the Chemistry Department at ...

As schools grow more familiar with distance learning, one key element continues to baffle even expert teachers: assigning grades in an online classroom. Many California school districts altered ...