On Wednesday, the State Board of Education approved a new grading system for students that will gauge a student’s performance on assessment tests every year. The new guidelines will set scale scores ...

Dating back to 2,500 years ago in Ancient Greece, grades were never once used. Yet, it still spawned the greatest thinkers and writers of all time. Instead of applying grades, they used formative ...

Most of the grading methods and practices referred to as “alternative” today fall under the umbrella term “ungrading.” Ungrading is the practice of wholly removing grades from all formative and ...

When the Roosevelt College and Career Academy labeled itself an innovative school in 2017, it was allowed to replace state assessment scores with a growth-only component that elevated its grade to an ...

Assessment criteria are the assignment expectations: they describe the elements of learning (i.e., knowledge, skills, values) that are being assessed and the standard the learner is expected to meet ...

Universities and schools have entered a new phase in how they need to address academic integrity as our society navigates a second era of digital technologies, which include publicly available ...