Middleschool Life

How do you remediate?

So, you’re using standards-based grading.  Rather than recording quizzes and tests by name, you record numbers on some sort of sliding scale connected with a narrative to describe how each student is doing related to specific learning targets.  Next comes the hard part: 

How do you handle student re-assessments?

I read this posting over at meta musings - a blog ran by a high school math teacher. He gives his thoughts on reassessment, and I’m looking to his blog for some answers as to how to utilize standard based grading at my middle school level. It seems I always have more questions than answers though. One impediment for me is how to handle standard’s based grading when you have to use gradebook software that operates on the 100 pt assumption. Would love to hear feedback from teachers out there…