My standards based grading policy – No seriously, there are no numbers. | laid-back science

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Grades without numbers? That would work for me. All I think I'd need is red, yellow, and green. Of course, to make it work within a traditional reporting scheme I'd need some conversion scheme, but that would come at a summative point where it's less likely to distract from the learning.