Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Keywords
standards-based grading, assessment, secondary schools, school leadership
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Theory & Practice in Rural Education (TPRE)
Volume
10
Issue
1
First Page
92
Last Page
102
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to better understand how principals in rural schools are thinking about assessment and grading practices and if they anticipate implementing policy changes in the near future that may require increased support. Principals of schools in rural areas often face challenges that are significantly different from those of their urban and suburban counterparts. The researchers used a mixed-method survey to better understand if progressive grading policies were a part of the vision for principals of rural high schools, if they possessed conceptual underpinnings of such practices, and if they believed they had the capacity within their districts to lead teachers toward more effective grading policies. A high frequency of high school principals in rural schools said standards-based grading (SBG) was a part of their 5-year vision. These principals also showed relatively high mean scores of standards-based assessment literacy, and moderately high percentages believed they have the resources and capacity to support SBG. The researchers thus conclude that there is a high likelihood that many rural high schools will be implementing some form of SBG within the next 5 years.
Department
Department of Educational Psychology, Foundations, and Leadership Studies
Original Publication Date
Spring 6-17-2020
DOI of published version
doi.org/10.3776/tpre.2020.v10n1p92-102
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Copyright
©2020 Tom Buckmiller, Matt Townsley, and Robyn Cooper.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Buckmiller, Tom; Townsley, Matt; and Cooper, Robyn, "Rural High School Principals and the Challenge of Standards-Based Grading" (2020). Faculty Publications. 2.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/epfls_facpub/2
Comments
First published in Theory & Practice in Rural Education (TPRE), v.10 n.1 (2020), pp.92-102, East Carolina University. doi.org/10.3776/tpre.2020.v10n1p92-102