Rethinking Grading: Meaningful Assessment for Standards-Based Learning

I am a high school English teacher, and I’ve been looking to reform my grading practices. I ordered several books at the same time that had been recommended by a colleague. This books is by far the best of the group. It has great background info on how our traditional system of grading came to be and research-based reasons for why it needs to change. It has has great practical ideas for how to implement standards-based grading into the classroom. If you’re looking to switch to standards- based grading, this is the book for you!

I really hope that many teachers and parents read this book. It explains very well the undeniable benefits of standard-based grading. The sbg will help all students of all levels in many ways. As humans, we are very different from each other, which means that we learn differently. The sbg will help with this matter, to benefit mainly our students (and teachers too because it is satisfactory to know our students are learning for real), which will in the end benefit our society as well by producing highly capable professionals. A must read.

More theories of how to change something in education. If it is like most theories, then it will be around for a while and then go away. Nothing wrong with the concept, but effective use in practice, especially throughout high school levels with college applications upcoming could be a different story.

After reading this, I've complete changed my approach to grading, a move away from completion/compliance and a move towards what students know and are able to do.

Nice ideas about grading but cold have used more meat to the book.

This is a go-to text for standards-based grading.

Great book, good quality

Nice product. perfect for my classroom as we discuss revamping grading process