Standards-Referenced Grading Basics The teacher designs instructional activities and assessments that grow and measure a student’s skills in the elements identified on our topic scales. Each scale features many such skills and knowledges, also called learning targets. These are noted on the scale below with letters (A, B, C) and occur at Levels 2 and 3 of the scale. In the grade book, a specific learning activity could be marked as being 3A, meaning that the task measured the A item at Level 3. Topic Evidence shows the student can... Score Demonstrate all learning targets from Level 2, Level 3, 4.0 When the time comes to identify the Topic Score for a topic, the teacher looks at all of and Level 4 the pieces of the Body of Evidence for that topic. The table to the right describes what Demonstrate all learning targets from Level 2 and 3.5 Topic Score a student receives based on what the Body of Evidence shows. The scores Level 3 with partial success at Level 4 listed on this table are the only valid scores that may be entered into the Topic Score assignment in a grade book. Demonstrate all learning targets from Level 2 and 3.0 Level 3 DMPS Grading Resources: grading.dmschools.org Demonstrate all Level 2 learning targets and some of 2.5 the Level 3 learning targets Demonstrate all learning targets from Level 2 but none 2.0 of the learning targets from Level 3 Units 1, 2, and 3: Contemporary World Affairs Demonstrate some of the Level 2 learning targets and 1.5 none of the Level 3 learning targets 6 week units *Essential questions vary depending on the issue Demonstrate none of the learning targets from Level 2 1.0 or Level 3 Enduring Understandings Suggested Produce no evidence appropriate to the learning targets 0 Texts and at any level Resources *Students who demonstrate success at Level 3 learning targets but not Exploring a case study of a current issue Choices Level 2 learning targets are the students for whom additional Curriculum Units investigation and multiple opportunities are most vital. Investigating options for a solution Brown – (select University one) Presentation of options for a solution Choices: Russia’s Transformation Choices: Challenges of Nuclear Weapons Evaluating options and defending a position Choices: Conflict on the Korean Peninsula
Standards-Referenced Grading Basics Evidence shows the student can... Topic Score Demonstrate all learning targets from Level 2, Level 3, and Level 4 4.0 Demonstrate all learning targets from Level 2 and Level 3 with partial success at Level 4 3.5 Demonstrate all learning targets from Level 2 and Level 3 3.0 Demonstrate all Level 2 learning targets and some of the Level 3 learning targets 2.5 Demonstrate all learning targets from Level 2 but none of the learning targets from Level 3 2.0 Demonstrate some of the Level 2 learning targets and none of the Level 3 learning targets 1.5 Demonstrate none of the learning targets from Level 2 or Level 3 1.0 Produce no evidence appropriate to the learning targets at any level 0 *Students who demonstrate success at Level 3 learning targets but not Level 2 learning targets are the students for whom additional investigation and multiple opportunities are most vital. The teacher designs instructional activities and assessments that grow and measure a student’s skills in the elements identified on our topic scales. Each scale features many such skills and knowledges, also called learning targets. These are noted on the scale below with letters (A, B, C) and occur at Levels 2 and 3 of the scale. In the grade book, a specific learning activity could be marked as being 3A, meaning that the task measured the A item at Level 3. When the time comes to identify the Topic Score for a topic, the teacher looks at all of the pieces of the Body of Evidence for that topic. The table to the right describes what Topic Score a student receives based on what the Body of Evidence shows. The scores listed on this table are the only valid scores that may be entered into the Topic Score assignment in a grade book. DMPS Grading Resources: grading.dmschools.org Units 1, 2, and 3: Contemporary World Affairs *Essential questions vary depending on the issue 6 week units Enduring Understandings Suggested Texts and Resources Exploring a case study of a current issue Investigating options for a solution Presentation of options for a solution Evaluating options and defending a position Choices Curriculum Units – Brown University (select one) Choices: Russia’s Transformation Choices: Challenges of Nuclear Weapons Choices: Conflict on the Korean Peninsula
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