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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This is the third in a series on Spaulding High's new competency based grading system. ROCHESTER— Cell phone in hand, Facebook on the computer, iPod headphones set to loud — the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) will today release the results of last year’s Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE), marking the second successive year under the new lower secondary ...