Entering and Viewing Standards Scores

In Aspen, you can align every assignment in every subject you teach with the standards you are covering, and enter scores for each.

Then, Aspen automatically updates the Trend and average score for each standard.

This way, when it is the end of a grading term, your Trend score for each standard has been calculated and is ready for you to quickly post to the office for report cards.

Also, having access to the latest Trend scores is essential in guiding your instruction for each student throughout the term; you know who needs more help with which skills.

To enter standards scores for an assignment:

1. Log on to the Staff view.
2. Click the Gradebook tab.
3. Select a class, and click the Scores side-tab.
4. There are three ways to enter standards scores for an assignment. Do one of the following:
• To get a feel for how your entire class is progressing in meeting a standard, enter scores by standard, for the entire class.
  

• Select the Standards view. Then, from the Standards drop-down, select the standard. Any assignment aligned with that standard appears.

  

  Press CTRL + L to select a score, or rubric rating, from the scale associated with this standard by your district.

  

• To keep track of how one student is progressing, enter standards scores for that student, one standard at a time.

• On the Scores page, click the student's name. The Single Student View appears.

  

  Select the Standards view, and then the specific Standard you want to see or enter scores for. A row appears for each assignment aligned to that standard.

  You can enter scores in cells that are not pink.

• Or maybe you want to determine if the lesson before this assignment sufficiently prepared students in each area. Then you would enter scores for all students, for all standards aligned to a specific assignment.

• On the Scores page, click the Single Assignment Entry icon in the column header of the assignment you want to enter scores for. The Single Assignment view appears.

  

  A column appears for each standard aligned to this assignment. Enter scores for each standard, for each student.

  With each standard score you enter for an assignment, Aspen uses the Power Law calculation to calculate a Trend score. View Trend scores on the Scores page.

  Note: After you enter a standards score, you can hover your cursor over the grading cell to see the rubric rating scale's name and description (as defined by your district).