Grading abbreviations - AT, PP, etc.

[Anonymous]

I'm pretty sure AT is all tasks/assessments, PP is practice/prep but what is FA? What other abbreviations do your child's teachers use?

[Anonymous]

Formative assessment, usually see that in science classes I think that's how it appears in the county curriculum

[Anonymous]

Yes, FA would be formative assessment. Years ago the grading categories were Formative Assessment (FA), Summative Assessment (SA) and Homework (HW). Then the county got rid of the Summative Assessment category and now we have All Task/Assessments and Practice Prep. Some teachers still hang on to the FA/SA terminology.

[Anonymous]

In 2019, at the county level each department created a common set of abbreviations for their common types of assignments so that it was clear to parents, counselors, case managers, etc. what type of assignment it was by the name. That rolled out with the gradebook transition to Synergy and county wide 90%/10% categories in 2020. However, in the middle of the pandemic, enforcing consistency was low priority. Don't know how consistent it is across departments or schools anymore.

For science it is:
PA - Practice Assignment (10% category) - could be homework or classwork, graded for completion
FA - Formative Assessment (90% category) - if re-assessable it gets (R) appended to the name
SUM - Summative Assessment (90% category) - tests and projects that are not retakable.

[Anonymous]

Thank you. It seems like every teacher uses a different convention and many don't list it at all. I don't know why MCPS can't add a field on to Canvas that displays whether the grade is PP or AT

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you. It seems like every teacher uses a different convention and many don't list it at all. I don't know why MCPS can't add a field on to Canvas that displays whether the grade is PP or AT

In ParentVue there is a field telling you which is which.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you. It seems like every teacher uses a different convention and many don't list it at all. I don't know why MCPS can't add a field on to Canvas that displays whether the grade is PP or AT

In ParentVue there is a field telling you which is which.

Yep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you. It seems like every teacher uses a different convention and many don't list it at all. I don't know why MCPS can't add a field on to Canvas that displays whether the grade is PP or AT

In Canvas, under assignments click "show by type" instead of "show by date" to see the PP/AT categories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you. It seems like every teacher uses a different convention and many don't list it at all. I don't know why MCPS can't add a field on to Canvas that displays whether the grade is PP or AT

In Canvas, under assignments click "show by type" instead of "show by date" to see the PP/AT categories.

Excellent tip.