Research Papers

By Dr. Paul Wright, Marzano Academies Faculty Member Editor’s note: the terms Standard Based and Competency Based have been interchangeably used within research articles. Early Research on Traditional Grading Systems Educational practitioners and researchers have known the limitations of the traditional 100-point grading scale for at least fifty years. Yet this scale and its associated alpha-reporting scheme (A, B, C) are as entrenched in our education system as much as the outmoded 180-day school year (Ripley, 2014). Brookhart (2016) noted that educators in the 1970s assigning numeric values to complex student performance struggled with differentiating student academic performance that [...]

Roman J. Arora & Robert J. Marzano (September 2023) IES Practice Guides The What Works Clearing House (WWC) was established in 2002 to be a central and trusted source of scientific evidence for best practices in education (Wood, 2017). The WWC database is housed within the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) which is a component of the U.S. Department of Education. One of the primary tools the WWC employs to make recommendations regarding best practices to educators is an extensive set of Practice Guides that translate research into practical suggestions. Each practice guide contains from 3 to 9 recommendations. [...]