Grading and reporting student progress in an age of standards

Forward / Rick Stiggins

1. Grading practices: an overview of the issues / Beverly P. Farr

2. Why do we grade

and should we? / Elise Trumbull

3. Technical issues of grading methods / John Carr

4. Grading and standards-based assessment / Kathleen Busick

5. How to design a model standards-based accountability system / Louise Bay Waters

6. Avoiding Bias in grading systems / Elise Trumbull

7. Grading and special populations / Henriette W. Langdon and Elise Trumbull

8. Reporting to parents and the community / Tanja Bisesi, Roger Farr, Beth Greene, and Elizabeth Haydel

9. Taking steps toward standards-based report cards / John Carr and Beverly Farr

Afterword / Ursula Casanova.