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 * Date: || 7/1/12 || Title of Selection: || Converting rubric scores to grades ||

Identify the special challenges associated with effective communication using grades. Follow a series of guidelines for effective grading. Summarize evidence gathered over time into a meaningful grade. Convert rubric scores into grades. Evaluate and refine your own grading practices using the Rubric for Sound Grading Practices. ||
 * Learning target(s) this selection addresses:

After reading the section, “Converting Rubric Scores to Grades,” work independently, with a partner, or with your team to complete the following activity.
 * What this selection illustrates about my learning/why I chose this selection: I chose to include this assignment because I use rubrics quite often and have struggled with how to use these and covert points earned into a score for my grade book. I usually score PBLs and use them summatively (as a grade to determine the level of student mastery of key standards). This activity helped me understand how to convert ratings from rubrics to grades or mastery levels.**
 * 1.** Decide whether you will determine the grade using the //average ratings// process or //pattern of ratings// process.
 * 2.** If you are using the //average ratings// process, follow the instructions in the subsection, “Average Ratings.”
 * Rubric Rating Average || Numerical Grade Conversion || Conversion by Percent ||
 * 3.5 - 4.0 || A || 90 percent ||
 * 2.9 - 3.4 || B || 80 percent ||
 * 2.3 - 2.8 || C || 70 percent ||
 * 1.7 – 2.2 || F || Below 70 percent ||
 * 3.** If you are using the //pattern of ratings// process, follow the instructions in the subsection, “Pattern of Ratings.”
 * 4.** Discuss the following questions with a partner or your team: How does this process differ from the one you have traditionally used? What are the advantages to converting rubric scores to grades using the process you selected? Would you prefer to try the other process? Before, when I scored with a rubric, I gave a percentage score based on the number of point a student scored compared to the total number of points possible (raw score taken to percent). I added up the rubric points and divided them by the total number of points. I now know that this is inaccurate. It doesn’t reflect the student’s achievement because the numbers in the rubric are labels for LEVELS, not how many points they have actually earned. Here, too few points are possible and the resulting grade doesn’t match that level on the rubric. With average ratings, the total of the ratings a student receives is divided by the total number of ratings. An average is calculated and we can better tell how well a student performs. This should be used toward the end of the grading period so that we can determine a grade for a given standard because later scores will be more representative of the student’s current achievement level.
 * 4.** Discuss the following questions with a partner or your team: How does this process differ from the one you have traditionally used? What are the advantages to converting rubric scores to grades using the process you selected? Would you prefer to try the other process? Before, when I scored with a rubric, I gave a percentage score based on the number of point a student scored compared to the total number of points possible (raw score taken to percent). I added up the rubric points and divided them by the total number of points. I now know that this is inaccurate. It doesn’t reflect the student’s achievement because the numbers in the rubric are labels for LEVELS, not how many points they have actually earned. Here, too few points are possible and the resulting grade doesn’t match that level on the rubric. With average ratings, the total of the ratings a student receives is divided by the total number of ratings. An average is calculated and we can better tell how well a student performs. This should be used toward the end of the grading period so that we can determine a grade for a given standard because later scores will be more representative of the student’s current achievement level.