This network is dedicated to promoting outstanding assessment practices - the kind of assessment practices that help students learn as opposed to simply documenting what they do or don't know. These types of practices are known as Assessment FOR Learning (AFL) strategies - an appropriate name since they are assessment strategies that lead to learning.
One set or type of AFL strategies are those that fall into the category of Standards Based Learning (SBL). SBL strategies are AFL strategies that focus on specific content standards. Students are assessed and taught based on standards. Their learning is driven by standards mastery, and the ultimate grade they receive is a communication of how well they have mastered standards - instead of the result of averaging a bunch of numbers together in a grade book.
As SBL strategies are shared on The Assessment Network, they also will be added to this blog. This post will become a one-stop-shop for all sorts of SBL ideas scattered throughout the Network. If you have any ideas or suggestions, please let Scott Habeeb know.
Blog Posts:
- It's TIme to Take an Assessment Journey from VASCD, Pawel Nazarewicz, & Scott Habeeb
- Getting Students to Focus on Learning
- Redos and Retakes? Yes. But don't forget to LOOP!
- Practical Examples of LOOPING - Philosophy in Action
- An Overview of Standards Based Learning from @CVULearns
- Quit Focusing on Standards Based Grading from @CVULearns
- Standards Based Teaching and Learning After Year One from JumpRope, Pawel Nazarewicz, & Scott Habeeb
- (Video) Standards-Referenced Grading from Des Moines Public Schools
- SBL Success: Things are moving in the right direction when students ask you questions like this...
- Standards Based Grading Flowchart from Matt Townsley
- Response to a Parent from Rick Wormeli
- Standards Based Grading Video from Rick Wormeli
- Formative Assessment and Standards Based Grading from Robert Marzano
- Redos and Retakes: 14 Practical Tips from Rick Wormeli
- How SBL Should and Shouldn't Look in a Math Class from Matt Townsley
- #SBLchat on Twitter
- Grade Like A Torpedo
- Vermont SBL Collective - great collection of resources
- AFL Teachers Reporting Progress in an SBL Method (using PowerSchool)
- Standards Based Learning and Grading Facebook Page
- The AFL/SBL Exit Slip
- This I Believe from Ken O'Connor
- Grading in 3D by Pawel Nazarewicz
- A Math Teacher Shares Her Students' Thoughts on SBL by Kristin Manna
- AFL: As Basic As Taking Off Your Coat
- A Winning Moment: A Math Teacher Shares SBL Success
- Letter to the Editor of Forest City Summit, IA from Rick Wormeli
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Videos:
- Standards Based Grading Video from Rick Wormeli
