SBG Part 3 - Students track their own grades!

I haven't posted a grade sheet in my class for the last two years.  Students track their own grades and can calculate their current grade at any time.  Here's how the system works:

As I've mentioned before, I have the students glue my grading policy into their notebooks at the beginning of the year.

On the very next page in their notebook is a calculation page that they can use to help them calculate their current grade.

The first two notebook pages in any unit always consist of:

• a unit overview page (example) that contains:
• the essential question for the unit
• the learning goals for the unit
• vocabulary from the unit
• the MN state standards related to the unit
• a score tracker page (example) that allows students to track their assessment and reassessment scores

To calculate their current grade, the students use the calculation page.  They:

• add up all the assessment scores in their notebook (using the most current score for any one standard)
• count how many standards they've been assessed on
• divide the sum of their assessment scores by the number of standards they've been assessed on
• This gives them a score that is between 0-4, which they can compare to the grading policy page in their notebook to convert to their letter grade.

Easy-peasy!