1. Standards Based Grading
Our Journey of Implementation
Eric Langhorst
South Valley Junior High School
Liberty, Missouri
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/4848088053/

2. 8th Grade American History Teacher
South Valley Junior High
Liberty, Missouri

3. Adjunct Graduate Faculty
Baker University & Park University

4. Currently writing dissertation
Doctor of Education
Walden University
Topic – Social Studies Teachers
Using Twitter to Collaborate

5. www.ericlanghorst.com/sbg
• Copy of presentation
• Handouts
• Links to resources
• Contact information

6. Plan for today Philosophy of assessment
Determining what is important
Building assessments
Checking for understanding
Retakes
Communicating the results
Resources

7. our journey
2 years ago
• Thinking more about assessments
• Begin more standards based type
assessment
Last year
• All standards based assessments
• Full implementation for 8th grade American
History

8. Purpose of Assessment
• Determine if students have an
understanding of the most
important objectives in the course.
• What is the next step if students
don’t “get it” on the first try?

9. comfortable
satisfied

10. my old system
• Unit Tests (100 points each)
• Activities
• Projects
• Article of the Week
• Extra Credit

11. Purpose of Assessment
• Determine if students have an
understanding of the most
important objectives in the course.
• What is the next step if students
don’t “get it” on the first try?

12. What does an “A”
grade mean?
What does a “F”
grade mean?

13. What does a 100%
grade mean?
What does a 75%
grade mean?

14. 1 select
what you think is most important

15. If every standard was
adequately taught in our
school system,
instead of K-12 we
would have K-22.
Do you even want to think about what a 28
year old high school senior would be like?

16. Prune your objectives.
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17. learning goals

18. South Valley Junior High
8th Grade American History
Unit 3 – Creating A Government
Learning Goal 3.1
Describe two weaknesses of the
Articles of Confederation.

23. South Valley Junior High
8th Grade American History
Unit 3 – Creating A Government
Learning Goal 3.2
Summarize the main
disagreements debated at the
Constitutional Convention and the
compromises reached.

28. 2 build
assessments for the objectives

29. “Is this graded?

30. Formative
not graded, helps prepare for the final performance
“Is this graded?

31. Formative
“Is this graded?
Summative
graded, everything else leads up to this assessment

32. Formative
not graded, helps prepare for the final performance
“Is this graded?
Summative
graded, everything else leads up to this assessment

33. Collaborate!

34. 3 check
your students’ understanding

35. 1 - Below basic
Making minimal progress toward meeting the
standard
2 – Basic
Simpler, but important content, process or
skill, building academic vocabulary
3 - Proficient
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Complex learning goal, based on the
Missouri Grade/Content Level Expectations
4 – Advanced
Apply level 3 content in a new situation, task
thinking above and beyond, increase the
level of difficulty

36. clarify difference
between a 3 and a 4

37. 3 is the new “A”

38. http://www.flickr.com/photos/eflon/5079163335/
time considerations...

39. Old Way:
165 students =
checked in 2
seconds
New way:
165 students x 2
minutes on each =
330 minutes
(5.5 hours)

40. What do
you do
when
students
don’t
“get it”?

41. yes, retakes

42. not just throwing darts at the wall

44. Physical evidence for retake form:
• Graphic organizer
• Practice test
• Note from parents about study
time

45. First Semester Retake Statistics
Only 3% of tests had a
retake
94% of retakes resulted
in an improved score

46. best grade goes down in
gradebook
2 2 3 4

48. 3
TRIES

49. may need to convert to 100% scale

50. Marzano Scale /
Standards-Based Current Scale
Recommendation
4 100 100
3.5 98 95
3 93 90
2.5 85 80
2 78 70
1.5 70 65
1 65 60
0 0 or 50 50

52. 4 communicate
your results

54. Google Docs Template

55. What about behavior,
work ethic, cooperation?
ACADEMIC
LIFE SKILLS
reported, but separately

59. A Repair Kit For Grading
By Ken O’Connor

60. Rick Wormeli
You Tube videos on “standards based grading”

61. Educational Leadership
November 2011 issue
Issue is devoted to grading and
assessment
Articles by Rick Wormeli, Carol Ann
Tomlinson, Alfie Kohn, Ken O’Connor,
Robert Marzano

62. Purpose of Assessment
• Determine if students have an
understanding of the most
important objectives in the course.
• What is the next step if students
don’t “get it” on the first try?

63. Eric Langhorst
8th Grade American History Teacher
South Valley Junior High
Liberty, Missouri
@elanghorst on Twitter
speakingofhistory@gmail.com
www.ericlanghorst.com

64. Standards Based Grading
Our Journey of Implementation
Eric Langhorst
South Valley Junior High School
Liberty, Missouri
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/4848088053/