Explain how grades are inflated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Over half of last year's senior class at Churchill had a 4.51 or higher.

https://drive.google.com/...tewQp/view


60% are over 4.0 at BCC ,

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RuP2fKPN3GGr9N6qEq6b5jEdOawRaKox/view?usp=drivesdk

If 74% of students attend 4 year colleges then the majority of college bound are 4.0 or higher.

Well I don’t know how grades are getting inflated but, with numbers like this, it’s pretty clear it’s happening in a big way

They don’t even release that data for Whitman so the numbers must be eyepopping.

How do they justify releasing the grade distribution data for every school EXCEPT Whitman?

Each school creates their own school profile and includes whichever info they choose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Over half of last year's senior class at Churchill had a 4.51 or higher.

https://drive.google.com/...tewQp/view


60% are over 4.0 at BCC ,

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RuP2fKPN3GGr9N6qEq6b5jEdOawRaKox/view?usp=drivesdk

If 74% of students attend 4 year colleges then the majority of college bound are 4.0 or higher.

Well I don’t know how grades are getting inflated but, with numbers like this, it’s pretty clear it’s happening in a big way

It’s cutthroat at Churchill. Many kids are not getting into UMD CP because of the competitiveness.

Grade inflation there is real. So many kids with 4.0. So many kids taking APs inflating the weighted GPAs.

Colleges only take so many kids from a h high school. This is why you are better off at a non-w or rich school.

+1000

This is totally true. So, parents, stop thinking W schools are the gold standard.

There are other schools in MCPS. Let your kids since there!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Over half of last year's senior class at Churchill had a 4.51 or higher.

https://drive.google.com/...tewQp/view


60% are over 4.0 at BCC ,

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RuP2fKPN3GGr9N6qEq6b5jEdOawRaKox/view?usp=drivesdk

If 74% of students attend 4 year colleges then the majority of college bound are 4.0 or higher.

Well I don’t know how grades are getting inflated but, with numbers like this, it’s pretty clear it’s happening in a big way

Is it just me or does the Churchill link not work for others? The BCC link is fine.

Churchill link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-MevGENlVsQgpIrCb0kwKYEw2a4tewQp/view

[Anonymous]

I had a high school chemistry course the teacher wanted to grade "on a curve". He would take the top grade make that a 100%, move all the grades up to that. He also liked to teach more lessons and hand out more work when anyone finished their homework in class. I would finish his homework by the time they finished handing them out and he would start teaching again. At the end of the semester, he took my grade as the top, no one else made an A. He broke his policy and inflated the other grades so that there were other people who made A's (the kids that sat next to me and copied off me). One of those other kids went on to get an MD.

That is grade inflation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a high school chemistry course the teacher wanted to grade "on a curve". He would take the top grade make that a 100%, move all the grades up to that. He also liked to teach more lessons and hand out more work when anyone finished their homework in class. I would finish his homework by the time they finished handing them out and he would start teaching again. At the end of the semester, he took my grade as the top, no one else made an A. He broke his policy and inflated the other grades so that there were other people who made A's (the kids that sat next to me and copied off me). One of those other kids went on to get an MD.

That is grade inflation.

That's not grade inflation. That's a bad teacher who poorly graded to set people up to fail.

[Anonymous]

I grew up in another state. I remember my chemistry teacher thinking our grading system was insane and we should raise hell about it. The entire concept was that the trending of your grade over time determined your semester and final grades.

Let’s say you earned an F first quarter, but a D second quarter. Your semester grade would be a D. Then let’s say you earned a D again in the third quarter and a C in the 4th quarter. Your second semester grade would be a C. Your final grade was determined by the trend of your semester semester grades. If you had that D first semester, and that C for second semester, you’d shown improvement and your final grade would be that C.

Unfortunately, the reverse was also true. Let’s say you earned an A first, second and third quarter, but you got a B in the 4th quarter. Even though you’d had an A for three quarters of the year, the trend over time was downward, so your final grade was a B.

So we had grade deflation as well as inflation.

[Anonymous]

The honors classes are just too easy even to get an A. My kid barely does homework and studies only a tad for a test. (And they consequently also learn very little.). Some (not all) AP classes are more serious. I think they still give a disproportionate number of As, but at least there, the kids are working for the A.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Over half of last year's senior class at Churchill had a 4.51 or higher.

https://drive.google.com/...tewQp/view


60% are over 4.0 at BCC ,

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RuP2fKPN3GGr9N6qEq6b5jEdOawRaKox/view?usp=drivesdk

If 74% of students attend 4 year colleges then the majority of college bound are 4.0 or higher.

Well I don’t know how grades are getting inflated but, with numbers like this, it’s pretty clear it’s happening in a big way

They don’t even release that data for Whitman so the numbers must be eyepopping.

How do they justify releasing the grade distribution data for every school EXCEPT Whitman?

Each school creates their own school profile and includes whichever info they choose.

That’s a bit odd. The BCC one has a lot more info than the Whitman one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a high school chemistry course the teacher wanted to grade "on a curve". He would take the top grade make that a 100%, move all the grades up to that. He also liked to teach more lessons and hand out more work when anyone finished their homework in class. I would finish his homework by the time they finished handing them out and he would start teaching again. At the end of the semester, he took my grade as the top, no one else made an A. He broke his policy and inflated the other grades so that there were other people who made A's (the kids that sat next to me and copied off me). One of those other kids went on to get an MD.

That is grade inflation.

That's not grade inflation. That's a bad teacher who poorly graded to set people up to fail.

That too, it really peeved him that he couldn't throw anything at me that I wouldn't get.

[Anonymous]

I see an item on the board's agenda for Thursday is "Grading and Reporting Regulation Revisions." Anyone have any clues about what that will be?

[Anonymous]

Just to be clear--so if a kid gets in the four marking periods:
A, B, A, B--all that shows on a transcript is A,A?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just to be clear--so if a kid gets in the four marking periods:
A, B, A, B--all that shows on a transcript is A,A?

Correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just to be clear--so if a kid gets in the four marking periods:
A, B, A, B--all that shows on a transcript is A,A?

Yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just to be clear--so if a kid gets in the four marking periods:
A, B, A, B--all that shows on a transcript is A,A?

Yes

How does that translate into a GPA calculation? Each marking period has its own "marking period average (for middle school anyway). So mathematically, if Child X gets All As in marking periods 1 and 3 (4.0), and all Bs in marking periods 2 and 4 (3.0), wouldn't the GPA for the year average to 3.5?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just to be clear--so if a kid gets in the four marking periods:
A, B, A, B--all that shows on a transcript is A,A?

Yes

How does that translate into a GPA calculation? Each marking period has its own "marking period average (for middle school anyway). So mathematically, if Child X gets All As in marking periods 1 and 3 (4.0), and all Bs in marking periods 2 and 4 (3.0), wouldn't the GPA for the year average to 3.5?

The scenario you described would result in a 4.0