Standards-Based Assessment & Reporting

People are familiar with letter grades — the A,B,C,D, and F. Those grades measure how well students do in comparison with their classmates. The key distinction in Standard-Based Assessment and Reporting is that it measures how well an individual student is performing according to the expectations for his or her grade level, not the work of the other students. There is no “grading on a curve” with SBAR.

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• What is standards-based assessment and reporting?

• What is the purpose of the standards-based report?

• Why is this happening now?

• Why do we need to change?

• What will the new report card look like?

• What will be included in each subject area as a standard?

• What does a standards-based classroom look like?

• How will teachers find the time to assess all content areas with rubrics?