Teaching Inquiry Project

Hello and welcome back. As a college student who is near the end of their college experience one of my classes has suggested an inquiry project on an area that is related to ELA. With this project I will share my findings that are within the classroom and beyond. The topic of my inquiry project is authentic assessment, and standards-referenced grading. I chose this topic because it has peaked my interest and would love to learn more about its fundamentals and how it is implemented in the classroom. This topic matters to me because I am currently in the process of using standard-reference grading and how it applies to authentic assessment. I want to make sure that the projects and assignments that I do within the classroom can allow for my students to meet their marks and provide assessments that can authentically applied for their next tasks within and outside the classroom. What I already know about this information is that we take the Kansas state standards that are given to us and we range on the scale of 1-4. four being excellent and one being not know the information. The standards are taken and assessments are created using the 1-4 scale to grade students on how well they know that standard. My next steps are to do research on the area to find out how this grading was created, why this grading is used in schools, and if this grading is better for assessments than the 100% scale.