• How Does Proficiency-Based Grading Prepare Students for College and Careers?

    By giving students ownership of their learning, proficiency-based grading gives students a more meaningful, realistic learning experience. Proficiency based grading teaches students the self-advocacy skills necessary to achieve in college and/or career settings by focusing on techniques and metacognitive practices such as retrieval practice, discrepancy reduction and proficiency learning that help students to effectively store and retrieve knowledge in order to apply it in new scenarios.