The district’s shift to what’s often called proficiency-based grading—but is also referred to as standards- and mastery ... students to complain that the conversion resulted in lower grades.

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked ...

Given my complaining about the dearth of control group research in the spreading, and I think troublesome, standards-based grading movement, I must give special attention to a new study that ...

The Nampa school board voted to get rid of standards-based grading for secondary schools in the district. Sarah A. Miller smiller@idahostatesman.com The Nampa school board’s decision last week ...

YPSILANTI, MI - Ypsilanti Community Schools is moving toward a standards-based grading model at its high school that focuses on students’ progress toward mastering specific concepts without ...

The new approach, called standards-based grading, requires teachers to divide curricula up into a large number of “standards”, each focusing on a particular skill or specific area of knowledge.

At the start of the most recent school year, the Eagle County School District continued the rollout of its new standards-based grading. As schools began to implement the new grading program at varying ...

Standards-based grading is an educational assessment approach that focuses on evaluating students’ mastery of specific learning objectives. Grades are assigned based on a student’s understanding and ...

in Avon Lake, which is part of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, is making strides in educational innovation by embracing standards-based grading. St. Joseph’s initiative is part of a larger ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — In the coming years, parents of students in the Fort Worth Independent School District will see a change in their children's report cards. Instead of using the traditional ...