thursday, april 24, 2014 2:00-3:00 pm et understanding grading in competency-based schools
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Thursday, April 24, 2014
2:00-3:00 PM ET
Understanding Grading in Competency-based Schools
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Introducing our Panelists
Abbie Forbus, Counselor, Lindsay Unified High School (CA)
Brett Grimm, Assistant Principal of
Curriculum & Instruction, Lindsay Unified High School (CA)
Lindsay Unified School District
http://lindsay.k12.ca.us/
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Overview
Welcome to CompetencyWorks
What is Competency Education
Why Redesign Grading for Competency-based
Schools?
Elements of Competency-based Grading
Grading at Lindsay Unified School District
Going Forward: Emerging Issues
Getting Involved in CompetencyWorks
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Partners
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Competency Education: Working Definition Students advance upon mastery.
Competencies include explicit, measurable, transferable learning objectives that empower students.
Assessment is meaningful and a positive learning experience for students.
Students receive timely, differentiated support based on their individual learning needs.
Learning outcomes emphasize competencies that include application and creation of knowledge, along with the development of important skills and dispositions
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Why Redesign Grading?
Subjectivity, Variation and Inaccurate Measures of Achievement
Swiss Cheese Achievement
Motivation, Competition and Control
MOST IMPORTANT – Competency education is about aligning all elements of the system with student learning and advancement.
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Elements of Competency-based Grading
Learning Progressions
Calibrating Proficiency Through Levels of Knowledge
A Culture of Transparency
A School-wide Standards-based Grading Policy
• What’s the difference between standards-referenced and
standards-based grading?
Not Yet Proficient and the Role of Feedback,
Revision and Reassessment
Tracking and Communicating Progress
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QUESTIONS?
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Transition from Traditional to PBS
Why the Transition?
System failing learners
• Valedictorians in remedial classes at university• 20-30% proficiency on state tests
Vision for the Shift – Strategic Design
Community Involvement
Guiding Beliefs/Vision Statements• All students can learn• Students learn in different timeframes
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Paradigm Shift
Traditional Personalized Learning(Performance-Based)
Quantity of Work Quality of Evidence
Summative averaged scores
Formative feedback to improve learning and achieve mastery
Failed course = Repeat entire course
Continue until mastery – Targeted instruction on areas of need
Letter grades based on teacher judgment
Proficiency score based on learning (DOK and Rubrics)
Inconsistent from teacher to teacher
Consistent calibrated scoring
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Science rubric example
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QUESTIONS?
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Transparency
Building learner ownership of learning
Learners know…• “What I must learn”• “How I can demonstrate learning”• “Where I go next”
EDUCATE© (Digital Learning Platform)
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Educate Student Snapshot
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Scores and evidence of learning
Measurement Topics and Learning Targets (standards)
Hyperlink to Overview, Scoring Guides, Resources, Learning Opportunities
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QUESTIONS?
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Personalized Learning Guiding Belief…“Students learn in different ways
and different timeframes”
Guaranteed and viable curriculum• Courses designed for average learner to complete in a
school year
Knowing this…• Pace is personalized• Ultimately we respond to needs of learner and make
sure they get it.
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Lindsay Learner ExampleThis learner started high school below 9th grade in English
By spring of freshmen year, he was still working on English 9, first semester.
He completed English 9 in the fall of his sophomore year, indicated by score 3
IP = Course In Progress (core courses)NM = No Mark (elective courses)(A) = First semester(B) = Second semester
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QUESTIONS?
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Going Forward: Emerging Issues
Recognizing Excellence in Academic Performance
Design for Deeper Learning Equity in a Competency-based System Higher Education Competency-based Human Capital
Development The Role of State Policy in Grading Badging, Credentialing and Community
Assessors
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Resources on Grading in Competency-Based Schools
Progress and Proficiency: Redesigning Grading for Comptency Education
www.competencyworks//resources/briefing-papers/
Competency-based Pathways Wiki https://sites.google.com/site/competencybasedpathways/home
Great Schools Partnership Proficiency Simplified• http://www.greatschoolspartnership.org/proficiency/grading-
reporting/
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Get Involved
Become a contributing author Leadership development
Attention to your organization
Identify novice mastery among your staff
Comment!
Pass on ideas!
Share tools, materials, and know-how Join CompetencyWorks E-list
Ask everyone in your network (board members, staff,
even students) to sign up at the website.