In the Competency-Based Grading module, defining results involves establishing the feedback levels provided to students when assessing their formative work. To define a result, you assign a color, a short name, a ranking value, and a description, forming a proficiency scale that helps you track and communicate student progress toward specific learning goals. Clearly defined results are crucial for designing formative assessments, which ultimately contribute to final grades or marks on a standards-based report card.

In jmc Teacher, click Competency-Based Grading > Define Formative Assessment to define your proficiency scale.

Step One: Select a course from the "Course" drop-down list to begin setting up results for a course.

Step Two: Select a number from the "Number of Results" drop-down list to begin creating the standard-based result definitions, or click the "Add Default Results" link to import system-wide CBG results defined in jmc Office.

Fun Fact: The "Number of Results" refers to how many proficiencies are in your proficiency scale. For example, if your proficiency scale is "Meets", "Developing", "Beginning", and "Incomplete" you would select "4" in "Number of Results".

Step Three: Click the "Edit" link next to one of the rows to begin defining a result in your proficiency scale.

Step Four: Select a color from the color drop-down list to correspond with your competency-based grading result.

Helpful Tip: Unique colors for each proficiency result make reviewing student progress reports easier as families can look for patterns of colors to understand their student's learning progress.

Step Five: Enter an abbreviation (3 letters or fewer) in the "Name" column to create a display name for the result. For example "Met", "Dev", or "Beg" etc.

Step Six: Enter a number in the "Value" column to set a ranking order for your proficiency scale.

Step Seven (optional): Select the corresponding report card result from the "SB Result Def" drop-down list to convert CBG results to a standards based report card.

Step Eight: Enter a description in the "Description" field to clearly define the selected competency-based result for all stakeholders.

Step Nine: Place a checkmark in the "Proficiency Target" checkbox to set the chosen result as the expected proficiency level, which will be used with the "Proficiency Target #" calculation option.

Step Ten (optional): Place a checkmark in the "Exempt" checkbox to prevent the result from contributing to the final calculation if, for example, the student has met proficiency and no longer needs assessment or if the student was not assessed due to absence.

Step Eleven: Click the "Update" link to save the result or click the "Cancel" link to discard changes.

Step Twelve: Click the "Copy to All Classes" button to copy your proficiency scale to all classes in your schedule.