Standards-Based Grading Software

What is standards-based grading?

A traditional approach communicates summative achievement ― as well as participation, effort, and extra credit ― with a single percentage or letter grade. This approach values the completion of work more than learning.

Standards-based grading is a system for measuring and reporting students’ progress toward mastering learning goals. It involves examining evidence of multiple standards over time to determine what students have learned and what they still need to learn.

Does your gradebook support your practice? It should.

When your tools support your practice, your work gets easier, your students get more of your time and attention, and your entire standards-based implementation gets stronger.

You shouldn’t have to wrestle with a traditional gradebook to try to get it to report on standards ― it was not designed to do that and will never do it well.

JumpRope is a standards-based gradebook that helps connect teaching practice with learning standards, making it easier for teachers to implement standards-based teaching practices. For example, JumpRope helps teachers provide descriptive feedback on the standards. And JumpRope makes it easy for students and families to view progress online at any time.

Seeking Patterns

When presented with unexpected sensory input — such as unfamiliar questions — the brain rapidly scans stored memories to find one that matches the new information. The brain uses patterns like these to make predictions and decide how to act.

Seeking Pleasure

When the brain makes an accurate prediction and acts in a way that gets the desired result, dopamine is released ― promoting a sense of pleasure and satisfaction. The brain finds this so pleasurable that it remembers the actions that caused this response and seeks opportunities to repeat them. As the brain pursues this goal, it results in better attention, motivation, curiosity, perseverance, and memory.

What matters most

+ JumpRope believes in the power of standards-based grading to make learning visible.

+ JumpRope believes in the power of meaningful data to drive actionable feedback and productive conversations about learning.

+ And we believe in the power of educators like you ― as you use standards-based practice to help students learn, grow, and thrive.

+ With compelling data insights in the right hands, students, teachers, and families can communicate about learning. And then school becomes a place where all students have the opportunity to succeed.

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The power of standards-based grading

What is standards-based grading?

Does your gradebook support your practice? It should.

Standards-based to the core

Standards-based grading isn’t just good practice ― it’s grounded in neuroscience

What matters most

At JumpRope, we build software that empowers teachers, students, and families with actionable, standards-based insights