November 24, 2008 PLC meeting

Report Card Update

We will be changing to a standards-based report card (sample copied & distributed at meeting by Judy Dolezal. Please see Judy if you need a copy.) This means that we will be changing both the way we score our indicators and also the scoring rubric.

Scoring Rubric: We will need to switch from a P, M, I, L system to a rubric system of 4, 3, 2, 1. This change will need to be conducted for all summative assessments for Language Arts and Math. Science, Social Studies, and Health are currently or will be under review so will not be switched at this time. The social/work habits section will still be scored using the P, L, N. We will need to talk with Andrew to get the M back for this section.

The way we report our grades: This will change also. The parents will only see the standards on the report card instead of all the indicators. Therefore, we will need to report one score for the entire phonemic awareness (for example) standard even though it has 7 indicators. We have decided that the final standard score will be populated by the computer. We will only put the indicator scores in just like we did in the past. The difference is that we will have to input them ourselves under "assignments" and then link them to the standard.

For example--We would type in the indicator "Identify and complete rhyming words and patterns" as an assignment and then link it to the phonemic awareness standard. (Andrew will be showing us how to do this during a release day in December.)

Once all the indicators are all in the gradebook, all we will have left to do is to put in the grades as we always did for each assignment. Then at report card time, the computer will generate a grade for us based on all the scores we inputed for all the indicators.

We will have a release day in December to make all this clear to everyone.
If you have any questions, please ask Karen or Judy. Thanks for your patience.