CONVERTING SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT INTO GRADES

CHALLENGES OF REPORT CARDS

• Should provide an accurate reflection of academic performance
• Our responsibility as educators is to minimize the negative impact of the grading process on learning

BEWARE

3 GUIDELINES

• Communicate, don't motivate
• Report achievement separately from other factors
• Reflect only CURRENT level of achievement

SUMMARIZE INFORMATION

• Discard inaccurate or outdated assessment data
• Convert all entries to a common scale
• Weight information
• Combine information thoughtfully

CONVERTING RUBRIC SCORES TO GRADES

• Rubrics for summative assessments MUST be quality (ch 7)
• Do not use the 5 points of rubric as the scale: these numbers are labels, NOT numbers

STEPS IN REPORT GRADING

• List the learning targets you will assess
• Make an assessment plan including both summarize AND formative
• Create, choose, modify assessments
• Record information from assessments as you give them
• Summarize achievement information into one score
• Translate the score into the appropriate report card symbol

DON'T FORGET!

INVOLVE THE STUDENTS