Expository+Formative+Assessment+Grading

The goal of the Expository Formative Assessment is to increase student learning. Of course, as teachers we assign grades to assessments so that our grades reflect the degree of student learning.

Remember that this is a formative assessment, a weekly quick check, so the scores should be placed in the formative writing category in ELD and the formative reading category in Reading or CAHSEE Prep.

Please refer to the chart below when assigning points to this assignment. All assessments will be scored on the rubric and students will keep track of their learning progress just like with previous formative assessments. The difference here being that students will get full credit in the grade book for the first 2 assessments (refer to the chart below).

Use this chart to assign point values to student scores after you use the rubric to grade student writing:

 * ~ === Week ===

||~ === ...Point Value... ===

||~ === ...4 (100%)... ===

||~ === ...3 (80%)... ===

||~ === ...2 (70%)... ===

||~ === ...1 (50%)... ===

||
 * = 1 ||= 20 ||= 20 ||= 20 ||= 20 ||= 20 ||
 * = 2 ||= 30 ||= 30 ||= 30 ||= 30 ||= 30 ||
 * = 3 ||= 40 ||= 40 ||= 32 ||= 28 ||= 20 ||
 * = 4 ||= 50 ||= 50 ||= 40 ||= 35 ||= 25 ||
 * = 5 ||= 60 ||= 60 ||= 48 ||= 42 ||= 30 ||

Remember, the point of this is to help students learn--not to assess and punish.