Provides educators with information that will ensure that state standards lead to higher student achievement. Describes how to sequence content and set up grading scales that help facilitate formative assessment and effective instruction. Provides steps for converting standards into guidelines that are more useful to classroom teachers.
Content Note
Using standards and measurement topics -- Standards in education -- Unpacking standards and designing measurement topics -- A scale format for measurement topics -- A formative assessment system using measurement topics -- Grades and report cards using measurement topics -- Scoring scales -- Language arts -- Mathematics -- Science -- Social studies -- Life skills.