Free Downloadable DepEd Resources
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Standards-Based Grading: Moving Your Report Card from Traditional Grades
Learn how standards-based grading differs from traditional grading, its benefits and challenges, and practical tips for teachers and school leaders.

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10 Key Components of an Effective Standards-Based Report Card
The 10 key components of an effective standards-based report card, from clear learning standards to descriptive feedback and goal setting.

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Why Standards-Based Report Cards Matter: Benefits and Challenges
Learn what standards-based report cards are, how they help learners, parents, and teachers, and the challenges schools face in using them.

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How to Develop Standards-Based Report Cards: A Step-by-Step Guide
Learn how to build a standards-based report card in four steps, with a sample grading scale, best practices, benefits, challenges, and common misconceptions.

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Using Rubrics to Promote Thinking and Learning: A Guide for Teachers
Learn how rubrics build critical thinking and self-assessment, the differences between analytic, holistic, and developmental rubrics, and how to make one.

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Educative Assessment: Designing Assessments to Improve Student Performance
Learn what educative assessment is, its benefits for learners and teachers, and five steps for designing assessments that inform and improve student learning.

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From Grading to Learning: How Rubrics Support Formative Assessment
Learn what rubrics are, how they support formative assessment through feedback and self-assessment, and practical tips and challenges for teachers.

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Using Rubrics for Differentiated Instruction and Personalized Learning
How teachers can use rubrics to support differentiated instruction and personalized learning, with tips for building rubrics and challenges to watch for.

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Rubrics and Student Achievement: Benefits, Challenges, and Effective Practices
What rubrics are, what research says about their effect on student achievement, their benefits and limits, and seven practices for using them in class.

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How to Design Rubrics That Measure Learning Objectives
A step-by-step guide for teachers on designing rubrics that measure learning objectives, from setting criteria and levels to pilot testing and revising.
