Grades Knowledge Testing 
Catlin Tucker
AUGUST 24, 2015
For the last two years, I’ve been increasingly frustrated with the traditional approach to assessing students and reporting grades. This year I decided to overhaul my gradebook and assess students based on their mastery of particular skills, also referred to as standards-based grading. Don’t Grade Everything.
eSchool News
MAY 8, 2025
In 2024, both Oklahoma and Wisconsin lowered what it means for students to be proficient in grade-level content. That means students this year did not need to achieve the same mastery of knowledge and skills as kids in previous years. Its a troubling trend thats sweeping through red states and blue states alike.
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eSchool News
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
“I feel like if you do poorly on one test, you kinda get in your mind that maybe this isn’t the subject for you, or you go into the next test feeling less confident. So, then it may influence your academic performance and reflect on your grades.”. For students: Building confidence in themselves and their ability to learn.
Catlin Tucker
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
Rubrics identify specific criteria relevant to the assignment, along with corresponding levels of performance that allow for more precise grading. Using rubrics helps teachers stay focused during the grading process and ensures that grading is objective, consistent, and fair. How does using rubrics benefit students?
eSchool News
MARCH 17, 2022
March 17, 2022— Whether students are prepared for grade-level learning matters more to their progress over the course of the pandemic than whether they were remote or in school, according to a new report released by Curriculum Associates. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.,March in school or remote) as a proxy for learning location. KEY THEMES.
Edsurge
JULY 9, 2021
Did you simply practice the same type of A/B testing that’s common throughout the tech sphere? That’s the ethics debate playing out in one online educator space , a lively back-and-forth carried over from a recent workshop on educational A/B testing. But if researchers are A/B testing two innocuous options, what’s the harm?
Edsurge
MAY 12, 2025
For example, Marylands state board has flagged that it wants every student career ready by the end of 10th grade. But the high turnover rate for teachers and the cadence at which they must prepare students for state testing forces educators to rely on overly procedural materials, she argued.
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