Grading and Assessment Practices
This information is intended for Parents/Guardians at Patriot High School.
Standards Based
Standard-this word refers to any competency, state standard, learning objective, or other related course skill necessary to demonstrate proficiency in a course.
Standards Based Assessments
Formative Assessments: assessment for learning
- Assess levels of student understanding and progress towards the standard
- Allow students an opportunity for feedback on learning
- Guide teacher instruction
- Are not the final assessments of a standard
- Account for less than 20 percent of a quarterly grade
Summative Assessments: an assessment of learning
- Evaluate student learning of standards after instruction
- Are distributed in the gradebook according to skill or standard
- Account for more than 80 percent of a quarterly grade
Standards Based Education at Patriot High School
- Standards Based Education is a systematic approach to improving instruction and learning
- Teachers evaluate student mastery in a number of standards
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- Focuses on targeted learning goals
- Allows for more frequent and effective feedback
- All graded work will be identified as either formative or summative
- Assessments of multiple standards will be broken up into multiple categories to communicate mastery of each standard
- Students will be provided multiple opportunities to demonstrate mastery of each standard
- Behavior and work habits will not be factored into academic grades
Retaking Assessments
- Students will be granted the opportunity to retake designated assessments
- Each subject will communicate procedures and expectations for assessment retakes
- Retake procedures will be outlined on the class webpage and the course syllabus
- Students will need to follow the procedures and fulfill the expectations of the course to be eligible for a retake