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Standards-based grading

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Challenging Standard Grading Practices: A Qualitative Action Research Study, Brian Andrew Timmons Jan 2017

Challenging Standard Grading Practices: A Qualitative Action Research Study, Brian Andrew Timmons

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The present qualitative Action Research study was conducted to determine students’ perceptions of current teacher grading practices and how a standards-based grading (SBG) report card affected secondary students’ perceptions and understanding of grade fairness and accuracy compared to a standard report card, which reports a single grade that often combines academic achievement with behaviors, attendance, homework completion, deadlines and the like. At the end of the first four-and-a-half week grading period of the fall 2016 semester, a group of tenth-grade English II Honors students were presented with two different report cards, one that utilized a single numerical average and one …