Stakeholders are often interested in assessing changes in student grades as part of measuring program effectiveness. But how good a measure of content knowledge are grades? These slides present an overview of some research assessing: the distribution of grades across time in a school district, how well grades predict test scores, and whether there are systematic school-level differences in the relationship between grades and test scores. #grades #Evaluation2009 #Prek-12EducationalEvaluation #Outcomes #QuantitativeMethods-TheoryandDesign #2009Conference