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What is a Standards-Based Report Card?
- A standards-based reporting system is designed to inform parents about their child’s progress toward achieving specific learning standards.
- The grades demonstrate students’ knowledge, skills, and abilities toward end-of-the year learning expectations. Grades provide parents and students with feedback on the next steps in learning and growth areas.
- The reports show improvement over time.
Why Do We Use a Standards-Based Report Card in Grades K-5?
- A standards-based report card is based on levels of proficiency towards standards, not percentages.
- Grades are determined by the most recent evidence of student learning rather than the average.
- This type of reporting supports students as self-directed learners by involving them in the assessment process and in communicating about their achievement.
What Do They Look Like?
- There are two types of reports are available to families:
- Summary Report
- This report will be shared with families every trimester. It contains the Domain Areas of content areas:
- Assessed Standards With Details Report
- This report is available for viewing student progress towards the specific and assessed standards, offering more details about what your child is learning. Not all standards that are taught or assessed are included; teachers have identified the most essential learnings to report. These are end-of-the year grade level learning expectations. These expectations are communicated with students in terms of Learning Targets that use “I can…” statements during instruction.
- Parent Templates With Assessed Standards/End of the Year Learning Targets:
How Are Grades Determined?
- Grades are reported as 4,3,2, or 1. A standard that has not been assessed will not have a number.
- Mastery or MEETING the learning target is a scale of 3. This is the expected level of student performance at the end of the year.