Examples of grade scales and grade schemes, including what circumstances they would be used.
These examples will go through the ways Edsby can accommodate different types of grade scales and schemes, and the circumstances the available features would be used. For a general overview and explanation, click here.
Grade Scales
4 Level Grade Scale
This is a good example of a common four-level grade scale. Notice how the minimum of the scale is 0, and the maximum of the scale is left blank. This is to ensure that marks above 100 are still valid.
Four Level with Non-valued Options
This is an adjustment of the 4 level scale, this time with extra options in the gradebook. A scale can normally have one symbol which marks a non-valued grade, but in this scale, two are used. They are subsequently marked with flow so that the report card will judge them as different symbols.
Four level with plus/minus options
This grade scale is similar to the other, but used for more granular grading. Grades 3-, 3, and 3+ are all under the subset 3, so they are put under the same group in a rubric. This allows easier translation to other grade schemes, such as the simpler Four Level. Be sure when doing corresponding grade scales that the ranges match.
Formative Scale
This is an example of a formative grade scale, where there are no values attached to the symbols. Because all the symbols have no value, Flow does not need to be checked, and Edsby will automatically see the symbols as separate results. The CUSN will be used for a formative grade scheme, so it’s hidden, so it does not appear as an option in Perspective Analyze.
Grade Schemes
Single-Column Grade Scheme
The most basic grade scheme will simply have one column that copies the original grade scale set in Default Scale. To signify a single column, use 0 for both the key and the name.
In the assignment form, the grade scheme is selected under Scheme. Since the assessment is only one single column, the only extra information to put is the weighting.
Here is the assignment in the gradebook. It has the options from the Four Level +/- grade scheme in one column. The R grade has a red circle around it because it's the failing grade.
Strands
Similar to the previous example, this allows the teachers to choose what aspects are being graded on the assessment. Strands are subcategories of standards, and the number of columns would be from the number of strands chosen by the teacher to assess.
Standards, Expectations, Outcomes
School assessments can vary by standards, which are the subjects within a course, subcategories of strands. This grade scheme gives more control to the teacher by allowing them to select which standards the assessments. For an extended guide on Standards, click here.
The three standards are added to the assignment and weighting has to be set for each one. In the gradebook itself, there are three columns, as the standards are given specific weights, and then averaged in the total column based on the weights of each column.
Grade schemes based on standards can also use strands as columns, but strand based schemes cannot divide their weights into standards.
Formative Multi-Column Grade Scheme
This is an example of a formative assessment, which has the formative only button checked. It’s based on the CUSN, a formative scale which had no values attached to the symbols. The scheme has multiple scales, which will all appear in the assessment form. Most of the time, formative grading schemes are hidden from the pickers, to avoid confusion from any teachers. In addition, the total column is removed, since the symbols have no value.
Multi-Scale Grade Scheme
This literacy assessment is a multi-columned grading scheme. However, each column uses a different symbolic scale. The columns will show up as usual to the gradebook, and no total column is used since the scale symbols will not always have corresponding values.