Standards-Based Grading Quick Reference Guide

Ken O'Connor is an independent consultant on grading and reporting. A graduate of the University of Melbourne (B.A. Hon) and the University of Toronto (M. Ed), he has been a staff development presenter in 47 states in the USA, 9 provinces and one territory in Canada, and in 22 countries outside North America. His 23 year teaching career included experience as a geography teacher and department head at 6 schools in Toronto and Melbourne (Grades 7-12) starting in 1967. Ken was a Curriculum Coordinator responsible for Student Assessment and Evaluation and Geography for the Scarborough Board of Education (and then the Toronto District School Board) from March 1990 to June 1999. He is the author of The School Leaders Guide to Grading, Solution Tree, 2013, A Repair Kit for Grading: 15 Fixes for Broken Grades. Second Edition, Pearson, 2011, How to Grade for Learning: K-12. Third Edition. Corwin, 2009, and Fifteen Fixes for Broken Grades: A Repair Kit, Pearson, Toronto, 2012.