One of the trickiest aspects of mastery-based grading is the way that scores are calculated in the system. There are pros and cons to each approach, so it’s a matter of finding the proper balance between the philosophical and the practical. JumpRope supports seven different strategies/algorithms, and it’s up to the teacher, school, or district to choose. The most important numbers in JumpRope’s gradebook are t...

A framework to evaluate the readiness for and effectiveness of your implementation of JumpRope and standards-based grading. Making the move to mastery requires many moving parts beyond the technical aspects of setting up a gradebook, and we here at JumpRope take seriously those other moving parts. As we like to say, we’re not an ed tech company but a school improvement one. To that end we have created this s...