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A way to organize assessment
around mastery of standards,
topics and/or skills.
Multifaceted
Easier to track student mastery
Easier to plan targeted instruction
Better communication
Improved lesson planning
Identify standards or anchors
Identify topics
Break down a unit into themes or key ideas/skills
Identify skills:
Pinpoint exactly what you want your students to be able to do at the end of the lesson/activity/unit.
A category can be specific
to a unit or used in many units.
Be mindful of the end of the marking period. Avoid orphans.
OPTIONS
Category - This option allows you to group scores
by category to look at trends within a topic or skill over time.
REPORTS
Category report - This allows you to see the
average performance in each category for every student within a class.
Student report - This is a progress report for one
student. All grades are shown and averages in
each category are given.
Rubrics are a good place to start for using categories in the gradebook.
A rubric often evaluates performance on multiple criteria and these can be grouped into scoring categories.
Start small.
Start in your comfort zone.
Identify what you want the students to be able to do.
Group outcomes around standards or clearly-defined categories.
Organize assignments, tests, etc. so they
are easier to grade.
Use available resources.
For now, you cannot track performance in both
categories and types of assessments.
Time!
It can be challenging to break down a complex
task into discrete categories.
PA Standards:
www.pdesas.org/Standard/StandsDownloads
Common Core State Standards
(English and Math)
www.corestandards.org
Professional Organizations
Labeling on Sapphire
Check Category Subtotals.
Click Preferences
under the Options
menu.
This option will
let you view all
categories or
only a single
category.
This is the screen where you will create your
categories and make decisions about display
options and weighting.
This is the screen shot
of the gradebook
for the chemistry test.
This is the end of a chemistry test that was divided into three sections. Each section was scored and recorded separately in the gradebook.
When recording multiple scores for one assignment or
test, use a common name and code. This will help you
distinguish between assignments as well as categories.
This is an analytic
rubric with 4
categories and 4 levels
of performance.
Click on Categories under the My Class option.
This is a more involved performance list rubric with 2 categories shown:
Experimenting and Data
This is a performance list rubric with 2 categories:
Chemistry knowledge and Writing skills.
4 separate grades
would be recorded in
the gradebook for
this assignment.
Only density scores are shown.
What do you notice?
Overall
averages in the
category are
shown for each
student (names
hidden).
To print a summary of progress in one
category, use the Categories Report
option.
The report generated from this screen is useful for identifying
students who need remediation and/or enrichment.
Scores are labeled with
the category name.
An achievement summary
for each category is shown
at the bottom.
To label an assignment
with a category name,
check Category Name on
left.
To see overall progress in
each category, check
Category Subtotals on right.
An assignment may fall into one category or a few.
If your assignment is broken into different skills and/or categories, put the
category in the assignment name as well as selcting the appropriate
topic under Category.