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Pathways to Proficiency
Implementing Evidence-Based Grading, Second Edition
This book provides a five-phase process for implementing evidence-based grading, offering practical guidance for teachers and a clear road map for school leaders to improve student assessment, grading, and reporting. The five-phase process helps schools address some of the challenges they encounter with standards-based and competency-based grading models, providing structured steps and solutions. K–12 administrators can use this book to evaluate their system’s effectiveness, reflect on successes and challenges, and continuously refine evidence-based grading practices to enhance student learning outcomes.
A five-phase process to implement evidence-based grading
Transform your school’s grading practices with this updated second edition on evidence-based grading. The book provides a five-phase process for moving beyond standards-based and competency-based grading models. Administrators and teachers will gain understanding of the core principles of evidence-based assessment, refocus assessments on proficiency, embrace student self-assessment, determine grades based on bodies of work and trends, and create a systemwide transformation of grading practices.
K–12 administrators can use this book to:
- Propose, design, and evaluate new grading practices based on student performance
- Lead and organize the implementation of evidence-based grading policies and practices
- Establish clearer guidelines, benchmarks, and standards of student performance
- Navigate common pitfalls when transitioning to a new evidence-based assessment model
- Enhance student performance through more consistent feedback and stronger mentorship
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“Grading practices have the power to motivate and inspire or demean and diminish. Yet, in many schools, grading practices go unexamined, and grading practices are often left to individual teachers. The second edition of Pathways to Proficiency provides practitioner-proven processes . . . for improving grading practices schoolwide. Buy it, read it, and most importantly, use it!”
“If I had an educational magic wand that I could wield just once to improve student learning across the country, I would use it to help every school revise archaic grading practices that average grades, rank achievement, restrict improvement, demotivate students, and fail to provide educators with accurate and precise information on each student’s specific strengths and needs. This exceptional book is that magic wand! The authors honestly challenge traditional thinking about grading, create a vision of assessment that can improve learning and develop hope in our students, and provide practical examples and tools to move you from core commitments into action.”
