Proficiency-based Grading in the Content Areas

Proficiency-based Grading in the Content Areas
Author: Wendy Custable
Publisher: Solution Tree
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781947604155

No matter the content area or grade level, proficiency-based grading puts student growth at the heart of the classroom. Designed for content-area teachers and administrators, Proficiency-Based Grading in the Content Areas details how to implement evidence-based grading and maintain its effectiveness over time. This book equips any educator -- from technical to fine arts -- with the tools to make this shift. Use proficiency-based grading (also known as evidence-based grading) to drive student success: Become familiar with the basic concepts and essential decisions of evidence-based grading that apply to all content areas. Study individual-level and institutional-level grading decisions and how they differ from each other. Become familiar with the steps, paradigm shifts, and pedagogy necessary to implement proficiency-based grading in a particular content area. Study the ways proficiency-based grading differs from content area to content area and the unique benefits it offers to each. Follow a structure that mirrors flow psychology and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's five stages of creativity. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Implementing Proficiency-Based Grading With Core Belief Fidelity Chapter 2: Implementing Evidence-Based Reporting in Career and Technical Education Chapter 3: Implementing Evidence-Based Grading in English Language Arts Chapter 4: Implementing Evidence-Based Grading in Fine Arts Chapter 5: Implementing Evidence-Based Grading in Mathematics Chapter 6: Implementing Evidence-Based Grading in Physical Education and Health Chapter 7: Implementing Evidence-Based Grading in Sciences Chapter 8: Implementing Evidence-Based Grading in Social Sciences Chapter 9: Implementing Evidence-Based Grading in World Languages Epilogue: Creating Self-Reliant Learners References and Resources Index

Proficiency-based Assessment

Proficiency-based Assessment
Author: Troy Gobble
Publisher: Solutions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-09-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781936763542

This book explains how to close the gaps between assessment, curriculum, and instruction by replacing outmoded assessment methods with proficiency-based assessments.

Deeper Competency-Based Learning

Deeper Competency-Based Learning
Author: Karin Hess
Publisher: Corwin
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2020-05-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1544397097

The roadmap for your school’s CBE journey! The one-size-fits-all instructional and assessment practices of the past no longer equitably meet the needs of all students. Competency-based education (CBE) has emerged not only as an innovation in education, but as a true transformation of the approaches to how we traditionally "do" school. In Deeper Competency-Based Learning, the authors share best practices from their experiences implementing CBE across states, districts, and schools. Leaving no stone unturned, readers are guided step-by-step through CBE implementation and validation phases, beginning with defining your WHY and collaborative development of the competencies describing deeper learning. The CBE readiness tools and reflections inside will help your team: Build the foundation for organizational shifts by examining policies, leadership, culture, and professional learning Dig in to shifts in teaching and learning structures by addressing rigorous learning goals, competency-based assessment, evidence-based grading, and body of evidence validation Take a deep dive into the shift to student-centered classrooms through personalized instructional strategies that change mindsets regarding teacher-student roles, responsibilities, and classroom culture Discover how your students can demonstrate deeper learning of academic content and develop personal success skills by maximizing time, place, and pace of learning with this roadmap for your CBE journey.

Proficiency Scales for the New Science Standards

Proficiency Scales for the New Science Standards
Author: Robert J, Marzano
Publisher: Solution Tree Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2015-08-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0991374851

Transform an in-depth understanding of the new science standards into successful classroom practice. You’ll learn how to align instruction and assessment with the science standards and create proficiency scales that can be used to plan all types of lessons. Discover hundreds of ready-to-use proficiency scales derived from the Next Generation Science Standards that are applicable to specific areas of science instruction.

Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading

Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading
Author: Robert J. Marzano
Publisher: Solution Tree Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2011-10-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1935542435

Learn everything you need to know to implement an integrated system of assessment and grading. The author details the specific benefits of formative assessment and explains how to design and interpret three different types of formative assessments, how to track student progress, and how to assign meaningful grades. Detailed examples bring each concept to life, and chapter exercises reinforce the content.

Assessing English Language Proficiency in U.S. K–12 Schools

Assessing English Language Proficiency in U.S. K–12 Schools
Author: Mikyung Kim Wolf
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2020-05-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000053016

Assessing English Language Proficiency in U.S. K–12 Schools offers comprehensive background information about the generation of standards-based, English language proficiency (ELP) assessments used in U.S. K–12 school settings. The chapters in this book address a variety of key issues involved in the development and use of those assessments: defining an ELP construct driven by new academic content and ELP standards, using technology for K–12 ELP assessments, addressing the needs of various English learner (EL) students taking the assessments, connecting assessment with teaching and learning, and substantiating validity claims. Each chapter also contains suggestions for future research that will contribute to the next generation of K–12 ELP assessments and improve policies and practices in the use of the assessments. This book is intended to be a useful resource for researchers, graduate students, test developers, practitioners, and policymakers who are interested in learning more about large-scale, standards-based ELP assessments for K–12 EL students.

A Handbook for Personalized Competency-Based Education

A Handbook for Personalized Competency-Based Education
Author: Robert J. Marzano
Publisher: Marzano Resources
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781943360130

Annotation In K-12 education's growing movement of competency-based education and personalized learning, both contradictory and overlapping definitions come up around these two terms. To clear up this confusion, A Handbook for Personalized Competency-Based Education by Robert J. Marzano, Jennifer S. Norford, Michelle Finn, and Douglas Finn III and contributors Rebecca Mestaz and Roberta Selleck delves into the components of a personalized competency-based education system. It reckons with the need to establish shared meanings for these terms, resulting in an inclusive definition of the terms, which the authors call personalized competency-based education (PCBE), and a clear implementation approach for a PCBE system. Once that term is in place, this handbook explores considerations, approaches, and strategies that educators should survey as they design PCBE systems that can help ensure students' content mastery.

English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners

English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners
Author: Mikyung Kim Wolf
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2017-05-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317379047

English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners provides both theoretical and empirical information about assessing the English language proficiency of young learners. Using large-scale standardized English language proficiency assessments developed for international or U.S. contexts as concrete examples, this volume illustrates rigorous processes of developing and validating assessments with considerations of young learners’ unique characteristics. In this volume, young learners are defined as school-age children from approximately 5 to 13 years old, learning English as a foreign language (EFL) or a second language (ESL). This volume also discusses innovative ways to assess young learners’ English language abilities based on empirical studies, with each chapter offering stimulating ideas for future research and development work to improve English language assessment practices with young learners. English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners is a useful resource for students, test developers, educators, and researchers in the area of language testing and assessment.

Assessing Foreign Language Students’ Spoken Proficiency

Assessing Foreign Language Students’ Spoken Proficiency
Author: Martin East
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2016-02-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811003033

This book presents an in‐depth study of assessment innovation and its impact on teaching and learning. The context is New Zealand, and the focus is additional languages other than English and the recent introduction of a radical new assessment of students’ spoken proficiency, called interact. The book crosses the traditional theoretical and methodological boundaries associated with language testing research, which focuses on assessment performance, and presents an alternative approach where stakeholders become the centre of interest. It advances our understanding of how assessment innovation impacts on two key groups - teachers and students in schools - based on data collected from a substantial two‐year research project. It presents an account of these stakeholders’ perceptions of the validity and usefulness of the new assessment in comparison with the more traditional test that it has replaced.Assessing Foreign Language Students' Spoken Proficiency makes an outstanding and original contribution to the field of second and foreign language teaching, providing a theory and research-based account of the development of a learner-centred approach to oral proficiency assessment. It is an important resource for teachers and teacher educators as well as assessment and curriculum specialists worldwide. It deserves to be widely read.

Pathways to Proficiency

Pathways to Proficiency
Author: Troy Gobble
Publisher: Solutions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781942496137

Challenge traditional grading practices and adopt a new, more effective grading model for students, which will close the gaps in student achievement and content mastery. This book provides the pathway for implementing evidence-based grading practices in schools through a straightforward, five-phase creative model: (1) preparation, (2) incubation, (3) insight, (4) evaluation, and (5) elaboration. Readers will follow a hypothetical curriculum team's journey through each phase of this process. Benefits Confront ineffective grading practices and then overcome traditional biases to apply better grading practices. Reflect on the effectiveness of revisions and improve newly revised grading methods. Give students meaningful information about their progress toward learning targets and expectations. Identify the concepts and perspectives to which curriculum team members must commit, to successfully adopt evidence-based grading practices. Discover the important relationships between learning targets and grading, feedback and instruction, assessment and grading, and gradebooks and learning. Contents About the Author Introduction 1 Preparation 2 Incubation 3 Insight 4 Evaluation 5 Elaboration Epilogue References and Resources Index