So we’ve been trucking along here in our first year of teaching this course. I was wondering what other teachers do for grading? What I mainly grade are the end-of-unit projects and the unit assessments, but I want to know how other teachers handle the individual lessons. I used to go through every student’s work on individual levels, but that is insanely time consuming and difficult. I’m interested in any and all pieces of advice! Thank you.
Personally, I choose a level that I think demonstrates the key goal of the lesson and do a scan through that level for each student, and then give them a quick note or feedback on it. I also find peer review to be really helpful in terms of making sure that students are getting feedback and suggestions without draining all of the hours of my life (and because then they get used to believing that their peers have the solutions and they shouldn’t just ask me!)
In terms of grading I am using standards based grading this year, so I don’t put individual assignments or lessons in my gradebook. I have in the past used a more points-based system and then I graded the Make lessons and projects.
I’m also a first year teaching for this course. I have decided to make some of the End of Lesson Assessments as Exit Tickets for a Classwork Grade. Then I just grade them for completion.
I think I will only grade code.org levels if they are for a Project or for a Make assignment. I am thinking of making the Make assignments the same amount as a homework grade instead of a project grade.
Hi, our school has changed to standard-based grading this year, and I am struggling with grading. what are you using as power standards? any help is appreciated.
How many power standards are you shooting for in a year? and how many (if any) supporting standards?
AP Comp Science Principles is a one-year course, so should we be shooting for all? I am currently looking at Computational Thinking Practices and course content. will this work?
Yes, you should plan to address all. Maybe I misunderstood- are you trying to decide what to use for the standards? In that case, how many are you planning to have? I, for example, can have at most 20 for the year. This influences how I craft the standards.
I did use computational thinking practices as the base of mine!