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Standards-Based Education and Student Report Cards

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Standards-based grading "don'ts"

• Grading on a curve - Are you teaching or sorting?
• Implied or emergent expectations - When did you first draft the final exam?
• All assessment tasks and/or scores are equal - How do you treat first efforts?
• Including non-achievement factors - How can you give that trouble-maker an "A?"
• A composite, averaged course score - How valid is "Peter got 83%?"