In my perfect world, each one of my learning targets would be assessed at least twice. At the moment, I count each assessment as 4 points, so each target would end up being worth 8 points total. I am really struggling with the percentages that result.
I don't like them.
I have been trying to come up with a better way of reporting the overall grade. A student pointed out yesterday that he did not want to reassess a target he scored a "1" on because he did well on the other targets. These other targets bring his overall grade up to one that is acceptable to him and his parents.
This REALLY bothers me. That target is one that I decided was critical to this course and a student told me that it wasn't important.
In a percentage world, he is right, it's not important. I'm not sure how to fix this, but it must be dealt with.
To be honest, I'm not even sure if I am allowed to change this. Our district (like many others) has an official grading scale. It might possibly take an act of the BOE to change it.
And if I do change it, what do I change it to?
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