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Common Core State Standards: Analysis And Policy Proposal, Savannah Rae Dabney
Common Core State Standards: Analysis And Policy Proposal, Savannah Rae Dabney
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Transitioning To A Standards-Based Grading Model At The Middle Level: A Case Study, Jeffrey Scott Szymczak
Transitioning To A Standards-Based Grading Model At The Middle Level: A Case Study, Jeffrey Scott Szymczak
Theses and Dissertations
Report card grades have long been a part of the system of communication used in our schools to signify student achievement. Letter grades have been with us for centuries, but it was not until recently that educators began recognizing there may be a better way to communicate what a student knows and can do for parents and other schools. While standards-based grades have been common at the elementary level, middle and high schools have been slow to put them to use.
This phenomenological case study was of a seventh and eighth grade school in northeast Illinois in 2013 in the …