s/o Teachers-how are you surviving the wacky new test re-take policy in high schools?

[Anonymous]

I checked schoology and I see they are already posting remediation stuff and about re-takes and I'm hearing from my kids about kids re-taking with a B or even A-. This seems like an insane amount of work for teachers. I know one teacher seems to have switched to google forms for tests, I assume to make life easier. When my older child had her, there were short answer and essay questions. Now it's fill in the blank and MC according to my younger. I assume you have to do that so you can easily grade all the re-takes?

The old policy seemed generous enough to me.

[Anonymous]

Shut up.

[Anonymous]

It's awful.

For students who requested to retake a test, we are required by our administration to give a reteaching assignment, then meet with each student individually to review the assignment, and then to administer the reassessment.

On the test my students took last week, the class averages were between 85% and 92%. I had 46 students request to re-take the test, which is almost 1/3 of my students! Several of those students earned a 92% or higher.

So I now have to meet individually with 46 students (if they all do the reteaching assignment) and then grade 46 additional tests. For students who already earned an A on the test, the possible increase in their grade is miniscule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's awful.

For students who requested to retake a test, we are required by our administration to give a reteaching assignment, then meet with each student individually to review the assignment, and then to administer the reassessment.

On the test my students took last week, the class averages were between 85% and 92%. I had 46 students request to re-take the test, which is almost 1/3 of my students! Several of those students earned a 92% or higher.

So I now have to meet individually with 46 students (if they all do the reteaching assignment) and then grade 46 additional tests. For students who already earned an A on the test, the possible increase in their grade is miniscule.

Oh no having to help students

[Anonymous]

My oldest has a class where they are doing on cumulative retake test a quarter. It will have sections covering each unit and a higher score in any unit can replace the prior one.

I hate the new policy as I think it is way too much work for teachers - retake level should be up to 85-90%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's awful.

For students who requested to retake a test, we are required by our administration to give a reteaching assignment, then meet with each student individually to review the assignment, and then to administer the reassessment.

On the test my students took last week, the class averages were between 85% and 92%. I had 46 students request to re-take the test, which is almost 1/3 of my students! Several of those students earned a 92% or higher.

So I now have to meet individually with 46 students (if they all do the reteaching assignment) and then grade 46 additional tests. For students who already earned an A on the test, the possible increase in their grade is miniscule.

Oh no having to help students

Get over yourself. Teachers are over worked as it is. This will push even more to the point of quitting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's awful.

For students who requested to retake a test, we are required by our administration to give a reteaching assignment, then meet with each student individually to review the assignment, and then to administer the reassessment.

On the test my students took last week, the class averages were between 85% and 92%. I had 46 students request to re-take the test, which is almost 1/3 of my students! Several of those students earned a 92% or higher.

So I now have to meet individually with 46 students (if they all do the reteaching assignment) and then grade 46 additional tests. For students who already earned an A on the test, the possible increase in their grade is miniscule.

Oh no having to help students

You are an absolute moron, pp. It’s obviously waaaaaay too much work for the teacher. It will absolutely chase good people out of the classroom.

[Anonymous]

I think retest to an A is fair - 92.5. That would accomplish the goal and eliminate kids who just want a higher A. College is competitive and expensive. I understand kids wanting to try for an A if they can.

[Anonymous]

*Remediation assignment is online.
*Retake is online
*Retakes can be taken during advisory period or after school, but if they have remediation during advisory they have to take it after school.

[Anonymous]

I have no issues with it. I actually did it myself for years until they capped us at 80% for a retake. I dropped it to that for a few years, and now have brought it back up to 100%. It's a learning curve, for sure, but I strongly feel it's the right thing to do.

This is the craziest part. Every year in September I'd have half my students ask to retake the first test. In October for test 2 it was down to 20%, and by the time test 3 rolls around it will only be the A students who got a C+ or the B students who got a D. The ones who always get Bs or Cs have no interest in retaking, and the kids who have low As realize it's not worth the stress. The novelty wears off and the reality of the amount of work involved limits participants.

Remediation has to be streamlined. I either print out a second "study guide" and make them do it again, or assign them khan academy reviews to watch/practice. The individual "conference" looks like me checking in with them for 1-2 minutes to validate all missing work is completed and answer any questions they have. The kids who got an 88 but want 100 have very direct questions that take 20 seconds to answer, or have spent the time to review and teach themselves the material. The kids who failed by and large did nothing the first time around, so they finally learned the material and I'm just checking that they have completed the work.

Retakes are almost all done during the intervention block, so it's no extra time from me. The remainder are done on my after school day (I'm already required to stay after one day a week for free tutoring, so I just set up kids with their test while I work with other kids).

The only issue is grading them, but after the first test it's truly not that many.

[Anonymous]

What happens when they go to college or get a job?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:*Remediation assignment is online.
*Retake is online
*Retakes can be taken during advisory period or after school, but if they have remediation during advisory they have to take it after school.

Is there a proctor for online?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What happens when they go to college or get a job?

They adapt to new rules and policies and expectations.

There are no bells in college or the office--how will they know when to be at their desk?
There is no schoology at work--how will they know what tasks they need to accomplish?
There aren't built in mandatory advisory lessons--how will they know what is going on around campus?
They don't get homework graded in college--how will they know how they're doing before exams?
They don't have a guidance counselor at work--how will they know how to plan the next few years?

High school isn't college. High school isn't the office. It is okay for it to look different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What happens when they go to college or get a job?

College is getting just as bad, and they'll just do crappy work at work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What happens when they go to college or get a job?

both need to adjust to genz