New England Association of Schools and Colleges
Commission on Public Secondary Schools (CPSS)

Indicator 11

Grading and reporting practices are regularly reviewed and revised to ensure alignment with the school’s core values and beliefs about learning.

What to Look for:
  • the professional staff regularly reviews the school’s grading practices to ensure they reflect the balanced use by all teachers of formative assessments, summative assessments and common assessments
  • the professional staff regularly reviews teachers’ consistent use of the school-wide analytic rubrics in determining individual student progress in achieving the school’s learning expectations and makes appropriate changes in its grading policies
  • the professional staff ensures that grading practices are consistent across all subject areas and by all teachers
  • the professional staff is focused on standards-based grading practices which measure student proficiency and promote mixed ability grouping
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