Letter Grade Expectations:

Student has mastered all of the grade level skills and knowledge required for the course

A
Exceeds
(all of the essential skills and knowledge).
● Student is highly successful and can apply knowledge and skills to a variety of
problems and situations, not always seen in class, and can solve new problems
presented in alternative formats.
Expectations ● Student easily accomplished tasks and recalls information from the course.
● Student readily integrates concepts from the course with concepts outside of the
course.

Student has mastered most of the skills and knowledge required for the course (all of the

B
Met
essential skills and knowledge).
● Student is able to accomplish basic tasks and recall important knowledge from the
course.
● Student understands how specific concepts relate to the larger aspects of the
Expectations course.
● Student can integrate and synthesize limited information.
● Student has most success solving new problems presented in formats different
from those specifically covered in classroom instruction (limited transfer)

Student has mastered some of the essential skills and knowledge required for the course.

C
Approached
However, gaps in knowledge may make the student less successful in accomplishing some
tasks.
● Student has developed basic understanding of the big ideas.
● Student can successfully apply the basic skills of the course and recall essential
Expectations information.
● Student is starting to have the ability to integrate specific bits if information into an
understanding of the broader concepts of the course.)
● Successful problem solving generally depends on problems being presented in a
similar format to those seen in the past.

The student is gaining mastery of a few of the essential skills and knowledge required for

D
Partially Met
the course (processes a basic comprehension of the essential skills and knowledge).
● Gaps in knowledge and skills cause student to struggle when attempting basic
tasks for the course.
● Student has little sense of how specific bits of information are related to larger
Expectations concepts of the course (bits of trivial rather than a coherent understanding of the
big ideas).
● The student has virtually no ability to solve new problems in a format different
from that which they have practiced in the past.

The student has mastered little, if any, of the essential skills and knowledge required for

F
Not Meeting
the course.
● Student has little or no success in accomplishing basic tasks for the course and
may recall basic information from the course verbatim with little or no
understanding.
Expectations ● Student has no sense of specific bits of information are related to the larger
concepts of the course.
● The student is completely dependent on having solved similar problems in order to
be successful.