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Standards Based Grading
1. Standards Based Grading
Our Journey of Implementation
Eric Langhorst
South Valley Junior High School
Liberty, Missouri
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2. 8th Grade American History Teacher
South Valley Junior High
Liberty, Missouri
6. Plan for today Philosophy of assessment
Determining what is important
Building assessments
Checking for understanding
Retakes
Communicating the results
Resources
7. our journey
2 years ago
• Thinking more about assessments
• Begin more standards based type
assessment
Last year
• All standards based assessments
• Full implementation for 8th grade American
History
8. Purpose of Assessment
• Determine if students have an
understanding of the most
important objectives in the course.
• What is the next step if students
don’t “get it” on the first try?
10. my old system
• Unit Tests (100 points each)
• Activities
• Projects
• Article of the Week
• Extra Credit
11. Purpose of Assessment
• Determine if students have an
understanding of the most
important objectives in the course.
• What is the next step if students
don’t “get it” on the first try?
12. What does an “A”
grade mean?
What does a “F”
grade mean?
13. What does a 100%
grade mean?
What does a 75%
grade mean?
15. If every standard was
adequately taught in our
school system,
instead of K-12 we
would have K-22.
Do you even want to think about what a 28
year old high school senior would be like?
18. South Valley Junior High
8th Grade American History
Unit 3 – Creating A Government
Learning Goal 3.1
Describe two weaknesses of the
Articles of Confederation.
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23. South Valley Junior High
8th Grade American History
Unit 3 – Creating A Government
Learning Goal 3.2
Summarize the main
disagreements debated at the
Constitutional Convention and the
compromises reached.
35. 1 - Below basic
Making minimal progress toward meeting the
standard
2 – Basic
Simpler, but important content, process or
skill, building academic vocabulary
3 - Proficient
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Complex learning goal, based on the
Missouri Grade/Content Level Expectations
4 – Advanced
Apply level 3 content in a new situation, task
thinking above and beyond, increase the
level of difficulty
61. Educational Leadership
November 2011 issue
Issue is devoted to grading and
assessment
Articles by Rick Wormeli, Carol Ann
Tomlinson, Alfie Kohn, Ken O’Connor,
Robert Marzano
62. Purpose of Assessment
• Determine if students have an
understanding of the most
important objectives in the course.
• What is the next step if students
don’t “get it” on the first try?
63. Eric Langhorst
8th Grade American History Teacher
South Valley Junior High
Liberty, Missouri
@elanghorst on Twitter
speakingofhistory@gmail.com
www.ericlanghorst.com
64. Standards Based Grading
Our Journey of Implementation
Eric Langhorst
South Valley Junior High School
Liberty, Missouri
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