Achievement Evaluation Grades 
Catlin Tucker
MAY 23, 2017
For the last two years, I’ve been moving farther away from conventional grades. I used to grade everything and dump hundreds of points into my digital gradebook over the course of a semester. When grades were due, my gradebook spit out a percentage for each student and that was the grade he/she received.
Catlin Tucker
MARCH 8, 2015
Note: For educators interested in incorporating online discussions into their curriculum, my first book Blended Learning in Grades 4-12 provides resources and strategies to support this shift. After the conversation is over, they evaluate their facilitation skills. This form asks them to track the participation of their group members.
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eSchool News
DECEMBER 31, 2024
eighth-graders learned how to conduct internet-related research tasks, such as using the internet to find information and evaluating the reliability of information, from their teachers compared to students in other systems, on average. The average U.S. score for computational thinking was lower than the international average.
Catlin Tucker
APRIL 10, 2018
For the last two years, I have published several blogs detailing my journey away from traditional grading and assessment practices. I do not believe grades should happen to students. goals they have for the grading period and describe their action plan for achieving these goals. The purpose of this shift was three-fold.
eSchool News
MAY 5, 2025
These false assumptions are holding back achievement for far too many students. So how can we help students achieve positive orientations to math education? Ill never forget a particular student in my Grade 8 math class. With the right instructional approach, everyone can learn and do math. But vision alone isnt enough.
Edsurge
JANUARY 20, 2020
Standards-based grading (SBG)—or competency-based grading—measures student progress relative to specific learning standards. This system of evaluation isolates the learning of content and mastery of skills from other factors, such as behavior.SBG takes on many different forms across the country.
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
23, 2022 – The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) selected Riverside Insight’s Cognitive Abilities Test ( CogAT ® ), the most respected and widely used test of student ability, to screen Grade 2 students state-wide for gifted programs. CogAT in Arizona Schools.
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