Step #5: Assessment for Learning

After you’ve accepted the challenge to ensure your classroom is focused on learning, hold yourself accountable to the idea by only including things in your gradebook that reflect the actual learning of content knowledge. Drawing on the work of Ken ‘O Connor, consider the Trouble with Grading and What’s In a Letter Grade.

Take some time to Audit Your Gradebook and consider alternative means to assessment, like Oral Defense Grading.