Multimetric accountability systems incorporate a variety of measures that more fully and accurately track student learning, engagement, and well-being. ASCD believes this next-generation approach to school accountability is essential to promoting a whole child approach to education, enhancing understanding of student progress, and ensuring that no single indicator of student achievement defines success.
Key Whole Child Indicators Related to Grading
Our school collects and uses qualitative and quantitative data to support student academic and personal growth (Challenged, No. 3).
Our curriculum, instruction, and assessment demonstrate high expectations for each student (Challenged, No. 4).
Our school monitors and assesses extracurricular, cocurricular, and community-based experiences to ensure students' academic and personal growth (Challenged, No. 9).
Our staff works closely with students to help them monitor and direct their own progress (Engaged, No. 8).
Our school integrates health and well-being into the school's ongoing activities, professional development, curriculum, and assessment practices (Healthy, No. 7).
Our school sets realistic goals for student and staff health that are built on accurate data and sound science (Healthy, No 8).
Our teachers and staff develop and implement academic and behavioral interventions based on an understanding of child and adolescent development and learning theories (Safe, No. 10).
Our teachers use a range of diagnostic, formative, and summative assessment tasks to monitor student progress, provide timely feedback, and adjust teaching-learning activities to maximize student progress (Supported, No. 2).
Our school staff understands and makes curricular, instructional, and school improvement decision based on child and adolescent development and student performance information (Supported, No. 5).