Proficiency Based Grading (PBG)

1. Proficiency Based Grading (PBG) 2019-2020 Information Systems Granite School District

2. Setting Up Your PBG Course in Gradebook • Once you have determined exactly which course/courses you are going to setup for Proficiency Based Grading (PBG), and created the concepts you will teach (ELEMENTARY ONLY – Secondary courses are created by the Master Scheduler at your school), • Log in to your Gradebook • Click on the wrench • Select Gradebook Setup

3. Setting Up Your PBG Course in Gradebook • Your courses should appear when you select Gradebook setup. If your courses do NOT appear, you will need to: • ELEMENTARY: setup your concepts before you can continue, or • SECONDARY: contact your master scheduler or administrator who sets up your courses before you can continue. • Select the course you want to work with by clicking the hyperlink/underlined Course-Section for that course.

4. Setting Up Your PBG Course in Gradebook • Once you have selected the course you wish to make a PBG Course, this window will open. • First you will choose your grade scale. Depending on if your course gives graduation credit or not, is how you will decide which Grade Scale to choose. • All Elementary schools will choose District PBG Numeric (4.0-0.0) • All High Schools will choose the PBG Letter (A-F) • Since some Junior High courses give graduation credit and some don’t you can choose either PBG Grade Scale, if chosen incorrectly, the program will fix the Grade Scale automatically to which way the grade will display for the course. • Next select the Category entitled ‘Proficiency Based Grading,’ (this applies to ALL Grade levels) and then click SAVE. • Selecting the PBG grade scale and the PBG category, will activate PBG for the selected course, add the appropriate standards to your course, and give you the STANDARD STAR in your Gradebook toolbar, within a two hour window.

5. Once you hit SAVE, after setting up your course, the program will ask you if you would like to apply these changes to all classes which are not setup. However, if you have any courses that will not be PBG, such as, Advisory, Homeroom or any regular Gradebook courses, you DO NOT want to apply this set up to those courses! Instead, you will individually go into each course and set them up.

6. A Successfully Set up PBG Gradebook Toolbar Standard Star: The place you will do your work on a PBG course in Gradebook. Assignment Standards: The place you will attach the Standards for your Assessment. Standard Score: The place where you enter student scores for the assessed standards. Mastery View: The place where you will see calculations for standards that have 3 entries. Learning Activity: An optional tool that creates a checklist for Learning Practice Tasks.

7. Steps to follow in Gradebook for PBG Success 1. Create an assessment paying particular attention to the DUE DATE! – The Due Date is what determines the percentage used for the decaying average. SAVE! Click on the Standard Star, select Assignment Standards, and choose the standards you want to assess for each created assessment. SAVE! Click on the Standard Star, select Standard Score and add your students’ scores for each of the standards being assessed for this new assessment. SAVE! NOTE: Students with no score entered (due to absence or refusal to assess) will automatically be populated with a Zero for the assessment once the due date passes.

8. Creating an Assessment: • Fill in the areas outlined in RED, • Pay close attention to the DUE DATE field; it determines the percentages for the decaying average. • Select Assessment as the Category for this assessment. Decaying Average: Most current entry/score = 65% 2nd most recent entry/score = 23% 3rd most recent entry/score = 8% * All other entries/scores = 4% *If there are only 3 entries, the 3rd entry =12%

9. Attaching Standards to a Created Assessment: • Once an assessment is created… • Return to the Standards Star • Click on Assignment Standards – the 2nd drop-down choice • Locate your newly created assignment in the Assignment Title area • Check each of the Standards that will be included in this particular assessment. • When finished selecting Standards…SAVE!!!

10. Steps to follow in Gradebookfor PBG Success in Entering Scores • You can enter scores two different ways within the Gradebook. • Click on the Standard Star on your toolbar and selecting the 2nd drop-down entitled Standard Score. • Click on the Class List tab and then click the Standard Star to the right of your PBG course.

11. Scoring an Assessment: NOTE: Once your assessment is created and saved, has standards selected and saved, you are ready to enter student scores. • Return to the Standards Star • Select Standard Score – drop down #2 beneath the star • Selected standard(s) will each display in a separate column for score entry • Clicking on the Assessment title will yield the FILL option Populate scores (1-4 including decimals to the tenths place) • SAVE • NOTE: NO modifiers (example: m=missing)

12. Re-calculating Scores… • To Re-calculate a course: • Select the course you want to re-calculate then go to the Standards star and select Standard Score. • Click the RecalcAvg button at the bottom middle to activate a re-calc • NOTE: You will receive a SAVE SUCCESSFUL green bar at the bottom of the screen once your re-calc is complete! Re-calculating a course should occur when: *An assessment has been deleted (after all of the scores for that assessment have been deleted, too) *Due Dates are altered and scores were present prior to this change *Scores seem to be inaccurate

13. Mastery View…calculated scores by Course

14. Mastery View…calculated scores by Standard

15. Mastery View…calculated scores by Student

16. Learning Activities: An Optional Tool For Teachers • Drop-down #4 beneath the Standard Star • Optional – simply a choice • Checklist – no scores attached • Teacher tool - for assigned tasks & learning opportunities NOT part of the student grade • MUST be PRINTED for parent/student – not visible in parent/student portal

17. Learning Activities: How they display in the PBG Gradebook • Drop-down #4 beneath the Standard Star • Checklist – no scores attached • Simply Check for complete • Leave blank if not completed

18. Continuing a Standard across Grading Periods • In PBG, grading periods don’t signify an end to a standard if it is taught across more than 1 grading period… • SO…if you have 2 assessments/scores in 1 grading period, and then you add a 3rd assessment/score in a different grading period…the student’s mastery score will include all of the scores for the school year for a particular standard! • Additionally, if you enter 3 assessment scores for a standard in 1 grading period, and then you enter other scores in a different grading period for that same standard, ALL scores for that standard will be included in the calculated score that displays for that standard! A Mastery Score for that Standard 1 grading period = only 2 scores/assessments on a standard 1 grading period = 1 additional score/assessment on that same standard

19. PBG Reports: GSD PBG Teacher Worksheet

20. PBG Reports: • GSD PBG Assessments by Section – all students • GSD PBG Assessment by Student – individual student Special Features…

21. PBG Reports: GSD PBG Assessed Standards • This report identifies every standard you have assessed throughout the school year. It will display each date up to 12 assessments.

22. PBG Reports: GSD PBG Class Roster • This report creates a list of student containing a row for each student and 10 blank columns. • If you are doing PBG and Regular Gradebook, you will need to pick the appropriate roster report for each course.

23. PBG Reports: GSD PBG Student Learning Activities Report

24. Posting Grades in a Proficiency Based Course Grades will be posted by clicking on the Grades Icon and selecting Grades…however, grades can NOT be overridden any longer; if a grade needs to be altered, the standard scores must be altered to generate the correct grade.

25. PBG Grading Scales for the 2020 School Year ELEMENTARY/JUNIOR HIGH*: HIGH SCHOOL/JUNIOR HIGH - GRADUATION CREDIT COURSES *Elementary and Junior Highs grades, with the GSD PBG Numeric (4.0-0.0), will post as a number (0-4) to the tenths place.

26. Parent/Student Portal

27. Parent/Student Portal Expanded PBG View • Parents/Students will need to click Standards for PBG courses • PBG courses will also appear beneath assignments with non-PBG courses, but they won’t expand there!

28. Happy Scoring! Teacher Resource Documents: PBG Documents