Grading+Personal+Narratives

The goal of the Personal Narrative 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. This particular learning goal will have a final assessment that makes up 30% of our students' grades--the Benchmark. The Benchmark Assessment makes up a large portion of our students' grades and it is appropriately at the end of the grading term. In order to keep grading fair we need to follow a fair, consistent model when we grade. When assigning points to the Narrative Formative Assessments we need to make sure that the earlier grades that students earn (when they first start learning) do not impact their overall grade as much as the later scores students earn (after they have learned and practiced Personal Narratives many times).

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 ||= 16 ||= 14 ||= 10 ||
 * = 2 ||= 30 ||= 30 ||= 24 ||= 21 ||= 15 ||
 * = 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.