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What informs the grade a student earns in your class? w/ Erica Posthuma

Deanna Cullen | Sun, 05/16/2021 - 08:11

Grades should provide feedback to students, parents, and teachers as to the progress students are making toward learning targets. Meaningful grades require good assessment practices. Erica Posthuma presented a ChemEd X Talk on May 11th, 2021, providing an overview of effective assessment design. She discussed writing and communicating learning goals, developing targeted questions and prompts, and scoring using a standards-based approach. You can watch the edited recording of Erica's Talk here.

SBG Hacks: Gradebook

Lauren Stewart | Mon, 02/17/2020 - 09:52

One of the hurdles that holds teachers back from implementing standards-based grading is the gradebook. Most schools use an electronic learning management system. Some of these platforms have added customizations to support recording learning targets rather than point values. Even with the upgrades, teachers can benefit from some 'hacks' to assist in recording student achievement. 

An Invitation to Participate: The CHemistry Instrument Review and Assessment Library (CHIRAL)

Qi Cui | Mon, 02/10/2020 - 15:49

As part of an NSF-funded project, a team of researchers is working to build an assessment library. They are looking for feedback from the chemistry education community. Your input will help them design this valuable resource. Educators are invited to participate in a brief interview about how this tool can be most useful.

Developing Learning Targets and Structuring Assessments

Ben Meacham | Mon, 07/09/2018 - 13:06

Learning targets are typically written as “I can” statements. Because our level of understanding is so much different than our students’, it is far too easy to write a target that you think is easily interpretable, while at the same time, remains unclear to your students. This article provides some information that will help teachers write meaningful learning targets.