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Science Education on the Edge · Standards-Based Grading in the land of portfolios, blogs, and other time-sucking grumkins: a how-to guide This post is an update to my older year end wrap up that seems to get a lot of traffic from people searching for “standards-based grades” and similar terms. I can only assume that there are lots of folks out there trying to get their heads around what SBG is about and how to do it. What follows will be a (hopefully) concise discussion of my spin on SBG and how I assess students using blogs and portfolios. If you’ve drunk even a little bit of the SBG kool-aid you’ll know that the lofty goals of grading and assessment reform can be stated something like this: have students show what they really know and can domake learning rather than grades the focusif you have to produce a “grade,” reform your grade book to reflect learning, not compliance/completionditch points-based, averaging nonsense and banish “zeros” since neither concept helps describe what a student knows and can dosince grades reflect learning, allow reassessments to show new understanding of concepts
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