Article: Course and Assignment Design
Crafting Standards for Standards-Based Grading
Grading for Growth
Chris’s
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My first encounter with learning objectives was actually constructing standards for a standards-based grading system. To me, it was intuitive. The standards served a direct assessment purpose blending the curriculum of mathematics with assessment categories... which is how many in math think about the curriculum.
At its core, SBG is grading at the level of individual skills or topics. SBG classes include a list of standards that describe the key things that students will learn in class. These are generally discrete skills – skills that can be practiced and demonstrated separately from each other. More specifically:
A standard is a clear and observable description of an action that a student can take to demonstrate their learning of some specific topic.
For example, here is a standard from the Calculus 2 class I’m currently teaching. We’ll be learning about this next week:
D.3: I can solve separable differential equations and initial value problems.
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