Guides
Short writeups, useful to keep.
Practical guides on the topics our free tools touch — grading, writing, planning a classroom day. Each one answers a specific question and points you back to a tool you can use right away, from teacher tools to writing tools.
Grading & assessment
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When to curve grades, and which curve to use
Flat add, square root, linear scale to max, and set average to target — what each method actually does, when to reach for it, and a worked example you can replicate in the AnchorKite Grade Curve Calculator.
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Weighted grades explained: why your average is not your course grade
Why category averages can look fine while the overall course grade comes in lower, with a worked example showing how category weights change the final number.
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Teaching & classroom
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How to take attendance in class: methods that actually work
A practical comparison of K-12 attendance methods — paper, spreadsheet, SIS/LMS, QR/Google Forms, clickers — for teachers who take attendance daily. Includes a tradeoff table, a worked example, and which method fits which classroom.
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What reading level should classroom handouts be?
How to choose a reading level for a handout, what readability formulas measure, where they mislead, and how to use the score as a revision signal.
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Readability formulas compared: why six scores disagree
Why Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog, SMOG, Coleman-Liau, and ARI produce different scores for the same text.
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Are memory games useful for vocabulary practice?
When memory matching games help students retrieve term-definition pairs, where they fall short, and how to set them up for better review.
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Psychology & cognition
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What the Stroop test measures, and what it does not
What congruent and incongruent trials show, why conflicting color words slow people down, and why browser results are demos, not diagnoses.
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Business & printing
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QR code error correction explained, for real-world printing
A practical guide to L, M, Q, and H error correction levels — recovery rates, density tradeoffs, print size, quiet zone, and recommendations by use case.
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