Jul 23, 2019, 12:03 PM
(From The 74) Today, schools are increasingly concerned with the role of the transcript in communicating students' skills during the college application process. Scott Looney, head of school at The Hawken School, is leading the effort to represent a more holistic view of students by developing an experimental high school transcript — one without letter grades or GPAs but instead with measures of academic abilities and skills. To help students show their individuality and stand out from their peers, the new transcript allows them to highlight some of their credits, create a brief description of their interests or include a portfolio of some of their best work.
Another benefit of the new transcript is that schools can now show how their students have learned other skills like critical analysis, social-emotional learning, problem-solving or decision-making. Now, 250 schools have joined Looney in launching the Mastery Transcript Consortium, the nonprofit group responsible for testing and refining its design. Still, it is unclear how colleges will accept or implement the mastery transcript going forward.
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