Rules re test makeups?

[Anonymous]

Are there written rules regarding test makeups? Can a teacher give a harder test for makeup? Require makeup be done the day after absence? If there are two teachers teaching same class, can one give a harder makeup than the other?
Wondering what’s allowed.
Thanks.

[Anonymous]

I doubt there are rules, because MCPS leaves so much up to schools, and schools to teachers.

[Anonymous]

Makeups are done at the teacher’s discretion if offered at all.

[Anonymous]

Regulation IKA-RA states that teachers are responsible for allowing makeup work, regardless of the reason for the student’s absence. Teachers may assign an equivalent, but different task or assessment to students when they return from any absence.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/policy/pdf/ikara.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Regulation IKA-RA states that teachers are responsible for allowing makeup work, regardless of the reason for the student’s absence. Teachers may assign an equivalent, but different task or assessment to students when they return from any absence.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/policy/pdf/ikara.pdf

That’s for make up work. Not assessments. See section 4. Reassessments are entirely at the teachers discretion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Regulation IKA-RA states that teachers are responsible for allowing makeup work, regardless of the reason for the student’s absence. Teachers may assign an equivalent, but different task or assessment to students when they return from any absence.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/policy/pdf/ikara.pdf

That’s for make up work. Not assessments. See section 4. Reassessments are entirely at the teachers discretion.

Reassessment is for kids to retake a test when they did poorly. OP is asking about a makeup test for when the kid is absent.

As per the Reg IKA-RA, the assessment can be different, but should be equivalent (not harder). It varies across schools (and sometimes across depts within schools) as to whether teachers teaching the same course use the same or different test (for original tests and makeups).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Regulation IKA-RA states that teachers are responsible for allowing makeup work, regardless of the reason for the student’s absence. Teachers may assign an equivalent, but different task or assessment to students when they return from any absence.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/policy/pdf/ikara.pdf

That’s for make up work. Not assessments. See section 4. Reassessments are entirely at the teachers discretion.

OP is asking about making up a test missed during an absence. That isn't a reassessment.

[Anonymous]

There is a time limit for when makeup should be done, but the enforcement differs across schools. At our school, they set specific dates every two weeks--under normal circumstances, kids have until that biweekly deadline to make things up. At other schools, there is no such deadline, but students should make up tests within X days of returning from absence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a time limit for when makeup should be done, but the enforcement differs across schools. At our school, they set specific dates every two weeks--under normal circumstances, kids have until that biweekly deadline to make things up. At other schools, there is no such deadline, but students should make up tests within X days of returning from absence.

The usual makeup timeframe is one day for every day missed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I doubt there are rules, because MCPS leaves so much up to schools, and schools to teachers.

That's odd I thought that everything was controlled by the CO these days. If not then, why do they have so much CO staff?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are there written rules regarding test makeups? Can a teacher give a harder test for makeup? Require makeup be done the day after absence? If there are two teachers teaching same class, can one give a harder makeup than the other?
Wondering what’s allowed.
Thanks.

I'm sorry, as a teacher, I think that your child being able to make up a test on the day they return is generous. I hope you aren't expecting that they have multiple additional days to study which their peers did not (which they already got by being absent).