Sentences with phrase «meaningful grading standards»

Unfortunately, too many policymakers are moving schools in the wrong direction by removing the few tools, such as meaningful grading standards and high - quality end - of - course exams, that might encourage more student effort.

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The second is that the Common Core movement muddles through, meaning that we end up, eventually, with a nearly national set of standards for what students need to know and do at each grade, high quality assessments aligned to those standards, cut scores for proficiency on those assessments that are challenging and equal across the nation, and a set of meaningful carrots and sticks for holding educators accountable for preparing all their students for success.

Carly Peace, a fifth - grade teacher at Holt Elementary in Durham, North Carolina says it best: «The question is no longer how do I teach global content AND the common core standards... the global theme has given us a platform for which to teach all of our common core objectives in a very meaningful way.»

Third, they should be meaningful; providing standards - based grades makes grades meaningful because they create a profile of student achievement that shows the student's areas of strength and areas that need improvement.

The 56 % meeting or exceeding standard for CA's grade 11 E / LA result was an outlier with blinking red lights that defies meaningful interpretation other than a grossly discrepant cut score (to the low side) or some other test development flaw (such as an inadequate item bank for a computer - adaptive test) or an error in the test administration or scoring process, or some weird effect due to the increased number of grade 11 students with scores since EAP moved from voluntary to mandatory in 2015 [which usually would involve a decrease in scores, a reasonable interpretation for the decrease in Math EAP scores this year, rather than an increase in scores].

With the intense pressure on 5th grade teachers to prepare students to meet and even exceed standards, it's easy to forget that my most important goal is to create an environment in which every student is involved in meaningful learning.

Does grading replace the true goal of any writer — meaningful communication with another person — with the artificial goal of trying to live up to a standard, as Wilson asserts?