In his Sept. 14 piece, “The Danger With Giving Students Feedback,” Alfie Kohn cites a 2020 Duke study which found that the traditional practice of grading can damage student motivation and performance ...

NASHUA – After teachers, students and staff advocated to maintain the Nashua School District’s new competency-based grading system, a motion to replace the system failed by a narrow margin before the ...

NASHUA – Acing a test won’t just get Nashua students an “A+” under a new grading system adopted by the Board of Education Monday night. It will also get them a 100, a 4, and a recap of their course ...

You know that old interview question: What would change in education if you had a magic wand? For Scott Looney, there’d be no hesitating: He would have every school switch from traditional grading to ...

NASHUA — After rolling out the next generation of report cards at a pair of public workshops with a panel of teachers, a PowerPoint presentation and plenty of multi-colored handouts, school ...

NASHUA — Students will soon be receiving new report cards with slews of scores that reflect their knowledge and abilities in each course. The school district is piloting the new competency-based ...

(Tribune News Service) — School officials offered no quick fixes on Tuesday in response to complaints that have dogged the district’s computerized student grading system. Some teachers have assailed ...

Schools that have or are planning to adopt competency-based learning have access to a new report that offers guidance in how to assess student progress. In 42 pages "Progress and Proficiency: ...

Standards-based grading (SBG)—or competency-based grading—measures student progress relative to specific learning standards. This system of evaluation isolates the learning of content and mastery of ...

ROCHESTER— At a meeting of the School Board's Instruction Committee Thursday night, committee members were presented with information about the new competency-based grading model that will be ...

ROCHESTER— If all goes according to plan, by the start of the school year in 2013 every Lilac City school will be following a competency-based system similar to the one introduced at Spaulding High ...