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Every month, we share expertise on best practices in standards-based grading, how to streamline assessment systems, and tips to build a culture of meaningful, data-driven decision-making.
Standards-based assessment is the practice of assessing student learning relative to specific learning outcomes. To illustrate what it looks like in practice, let us consider three examples: Example 1: Teacher X has just given a standards-aligned unit test.…
Forefront Education, founded in 2009, provides an assessment data and standards-based reporting and grading solution called Forefront®. We support over 500 schools in 35 states and 6 countries to help collect, analyze, and report student learning data for…
The switch to standards-based grading increases specificity and accuracy: focusing on performance rather than progress and correctness rather than process. The standards-based mindset sees that each student is complex with strengths and areas for growth even within a…
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