Standards-Based Grading

Course Numbers

• Adams State: ED 589
• UMass Global: EDDU 9628
• CSU Pueblo: ED 501

Course Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

• Students will learn the principles and strategies behind standards-based grading.
• Students will be able to create a student progress monitoring system for their own students to use to track their own learning.
• Students will be able to use and implement standards-based grading in their classes to accurately show what their own students know and understand.
• Students will develop skills to reflect on & improve their own teaching practices.

Relevancy to Practice: This course provides educators with the following relevant information to help improve their practice:

• Strategies to successfully implement standards-based learning and a standards-based grading system in the classroom.
• What standards-based grading looks like in the classroom as well as what, how and when to grade.
• Overcoming challenges with standards-based grading.
• Creating learning targets in student-friendly language from the content standards that students interact with daily.
• Developing progress-monitoring tools to track student learning, knowledge and understanding of each learning target.
• Developing activities and assessments with purpose to assess each learning target and linking each activity and assessment to a learning target.
• Using formative assessments to provide regular and valuable feedback to students.
• Strategies for supporting students during failure and how to grow from it.
• Designing a system for redo’s and retakes so students can have multiple changes to show mastery of the learning targets.