Standards-Referenced Grading Basics The teacher designs instructional activities and assessments that grow and measure a skills in the elements identified on our topic student’s 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 the and Level 4 pieces of the Body of Evidence for that topic. The table to the right describes what Topic Demonstrate all learning targets from Level 2 and 3.5 Score a student receives based on what the Body of Evidence shows. The scores listed on Level 3 with partial success at Level 4 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 Demonstrate some of the Level 2 learning targets and 1.5 none of the Level 3 learning targets Demonstrate none of the learning targets from Level 2 1.0 or Level 3 Produce no evidence appropriate to the learning targets 0 at any level *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. Unit 1: Civic Identity
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 Unit 1: Civic Identity
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