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What is Mastery?
According to the Schoology Exchange, standards-based grading is "an intentional way for teachers to track their students' progress and achievements while focusing on helping students learn and reach their highest potential. It is based on students showing signs of mastery or understanding various lessons and skills. In fact, many districts across the country have embraced the idea for decades. Standards-based grading is a way to view student progress based on proficiency levels for identified standards rather than relying on a holistic representation as the sole measure of achievement—or what Marzano and Heflebower called an omnibus grade."
Standards-based grading is often contrasted with a more traditional approach to grading and assessment. Instead of the all-or-nothing, percentages-and-letter-grades approach, standards-based approaches consider evidence of learning and the data it produces in different ways.
Students still often focus on the numerical grade first and worry about feedback second. I've flipped that model, by giving students feedback first, using the feedback forms below. Only after students have reviewed their feedback forms do they receive their graded tests. By the end of the school year, in order to demonstrate mastery, they must achieve a "check plus" in each category.
The standards are based on the College Board AP Physics C: Mechanics Course Description, the IB Physics Syllabus and detailed AP Physics C: Mechanics course description by Dolores Gende.
Standards-based grading is often contrasted with a more traditional approach to grading and assessment. Instead of the all-or-nothing, percentages-and-letter-grades approach, standards-based approaches consider evidence of learning and the data it produces in different ways.
Students still often focus on the numerical grade first and worry about feedback second. I've flipped that model, by giving students feedback first, using the feedback forms below. Only after students have reviewed their feedback forms do they receive their graded tests. By the end of the school year, in order to demonstrate mastery, they must achieve a "check plus" in each category.
The standards are based on the College Board AP Physics C: Mechanics Course Description, the IB Physics Syllabus and detailed AP Physics C: Mechanics course description by Dolores Gende.
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AP Physics
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Honors Physics
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Atmospheric Science
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