January Research Journal

Now that I have had a chance to take a closer look at my data, I've noticed a couple of items that stand out pretty clearly:

• Students, in general, liked the way that the standards-based grading system worked.  They liked being able to reassess any of the learning targets they wanted to in order to show proficiency.
• Students, in general, didn't like that they were not able to see what their grade was at any particular time as they could in their other classes.  This wasn't feasible for me to do because their total grade was an amalgamation of several different factors that wasn't easy to calculate on a regular basis.  Next time I will look at having a set date where students would be able to get a snapshot of what their current grade is.
• Students final grades are, in general, higher in this class than they would be in a traditional math class.  I'm torn as to whether this is "good" or "bad".  If all grades are better, than students are clearly succeeding more, which is good, but is the letter grade that I have assigned to a particular score appropriate?  I'm still not totally sure.