Next year, New York plans to grade schools as meeting or falling below standards based on data broken out by race.
There are no national statistics about the number of schools shifting to standards-based grading.
In this paper, we compare predictive methods to identify at-risk students in a course that used standards-based grading.
While some universities have started to use standards-based grading, which has educational advantages over common score-based grading, at risk prediction models have not been adapted to reap the benefits of standards-based grading in courses that utilize this grading.
"Schools are finally realizing if you don't have standards-based grading you really do not have a standards-based education," said Mr. O'Connor, author of "A Repair Kit for Grading: Fifteen Fixes for Broken Grades".
Standards-based grading (SBG) provides ongoing evaluation of students' strengths and weaknesses, allows multiple chances for them to demonstrate their understanding, and eliminates what advocates call "extraneous grades" such as homework and extra credit, according to Matt Townsley, a top school administrator in Iowa who helped his district implement SBG.
Last fall, over protests from parents of some of the above-average students, the eighth-grade math teachers at Ellis tried a new, standards-based grading system, and this fall the new system is being used by the entire middle school and in high school for ninth graders.
Understand standards-based grading.
If your class will be graded using standards-based grading, then the methods above should accurately predict your grade.
They threw out my own homework assignments and put in place standard ones based off our standard textbook which a computer could automatically grade, and fed them into a central grading database which determines the students' entire grade; I have virtually no say in this anymore.
Courses taken at a local university will be graded based on the local grading standards.
