What are completion grades?

[Anonymous]

In the new gradebook, do completion grades count? In one of my child’s classes, there are two outstanding grades that say completion grade (instead of formative or summarize) but it says 1 point possible. I’m thinking they don’t count and am super frustrated because my daughter spent two full days (like 6 hrs each day and even missed a sporting event) to work on these assignments. The teacher is unfortunately really volatile so not something she can just ask her about informally like in other classes.

[Anonymous]

What does the percent of grade look like for completion? Is it 0% (some schools use this for a homework grade that is recorded but not graded)? What is the summative and formative %? I can't grab a screenshot because my kids are elementary and I can't post from my own students.

In my gradebook, completion is either 100% or 0/50% (regardless of points, I've done it at various point levels).

Also, all work is valuable for gaining skills/mastery, even if it doesn't provide a letter grade (e.g., taking notes in class). I provide classwork that's not graded but gives students a low-stakes way to gain comfort with new skills/revisit previous ones.

[Anonymous]

This is one form of FCPS’s new:

“equity grading”

[Anonymous]

I don’t know, but one of my kid’s teachers has emergency care card as a summative assessment.

[Anonymous]

It’s probably something like a diagnostic that the kids need to get done but that we can’t grade, such as Iready. The data is very important for intervention, but we can’t grade them doing it or not. By being 1 point of completion, it essentially just shows they did or didn’t do it. If it isn’t weighted , it doesn’t affect the grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does the percent of grade look like for completion? Is it 0% (some schools use this for a homework grade that is recorded but not graded)? What is the summative and formative %? I can't grab a screenshot because my kids are elementary and I can't post from my own students.

In my gradebook, completion is either 100% or 0/50% (regardless of points, I've done it at various point levels).

Also, all work is valuable for gaining skills/mastery, even if it doesn't provide a letter grade (e.g., taking notes in class). I provide classwork that's not graded but gives students a low-stakes way to gain comfort with new skills/revisit previous ones.

Yup, it is 0%. The odd thing is that thr teacher has assigned even more of the same thing. These are not just 30 minute homeworks, each one takes 4-5 hours to complete and there are two due each week. This is on top of two quizzes per week on entirely different things. Lesson learned for my daughter, she will just be doing the bare minimum for these completion non-grades. I have no idea why a teacher would think these students have time to devote entire weekends to just one class week after week.

[Anonymous]

That sounds awful, OP. DD’s math class has completion grades. They don’t count towards anything, but is essentially homework that she keeps track of, because according to her, there is a correlation between turning those in, and their summative grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the new gradebook, do completion grades count? In one of my child’s classes, there are two outstanding grades that say completion grade (instead of formative or summarize) but it says 1 point possible. I’m thinking they don’t count and am super frustrated because my daughter spent two full days (like 6 hrs each day and even missed a sporting event) to work on these assignments. The teacher is unfortunately really volatile so not something she can just ask her about informally like in other classes.

Best advice I can give here, is figure out how to help your daughter talk to your teacher and ask questions. It can only benefit her to know more, irrespective of how volatile a teacher is, or seems to be. If this is middle school, it's a perfect time to start learning this key skill. If it's high school, it's critical to learn it ASAP. The students who know how to do this will have a huge advantage throughout life.

Once she learns to not being afraid to communicate with any teacher (because it is her right to learn and ask questions), she will figure out what needs to be done vs skipped. There is no point guessing, just teach her how to ask.