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What is Standards Based Assessment?

A way to organize assessment

around mastery of standards,

topics and/or skills.

Multifaceted

  • Unit and lesson planning
  • Gradebook organization
  • Rubric design
  • Assignment and test formatting

Why Change?

Easier to track student mastery

  • strengths
  • areas of need

Easier to plan targeted instruction

  • Intervention for struggling students
  • Enrichment for students who are ready

Better communication

  • students
  • parents
  • administrators

Improved lesson planning

  • Improved pacing
  • Differentiation

Planning a Teaching Unit

Identify standards or anchors

  • PDE
  • National standards
  • Core Competencies

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.

Organizing the

Gradebook Categories

A category can be specific

to a unit or used in many units.

Be mindful of the end of the marking period. Avoid orphans.

Viewing Category Totals

on Gradebook

Sorting data on Sapphire

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.

Category Report

Student Report

Setting Up Tests

Designing a Rubric

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.

Suggestions for Getting Started

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.

Any negatives?

For now, you cannot track performance in both

categories and types of assessments.

Time!

  • Creating thoughtful assessments
  • Inputting grades
  • Becoming comfortable with a new system

It can be challenging to break down a complex

task into discrete categories.

Resources for

Finding Standards

PA Standards:

www.pdesas.org/Standard/StandsDownloads

Common Core State Standards

(English and Math)

www.corestandards.org

Professional Organizations

  • National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  • National Council of Teachers of English
  • National Geographic Society
  • National Council for the Social Studies
  • Center for Civic Education
  • Consortium of National Arts Education Associations
  • International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
  • National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)

Moving Toward Standards-Based Grading

Category Filter

Labeling on Sapphire

  • Clear category names (no PDE codes)
  • Color code

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.

What are this student's

strengths? Weaknesses?

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.

Setting Up an Assignment

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.

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