90/10 grading system

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher and understand what people are saying about mastery, grading, kids not doing the work, etc. However, 90/10 seems extreme to me. At our school it’s 60/40.

I deliberately spam my students with homework to heighten stress loads and then make tests extra harder. Feck free grades and easy rides. Suffer now and be prepared for the real life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher and understand what people are saying about mastery, grading, kids not doing the work, etc. However, 90/10 seems extreme to me. At our school it’s 60/40.

So a kid who does 100% of the work (40% of total points earned) but gets 50% on tests (30% of total points earned) gets a C- (70%)? That seems generous.

Or a kid who can get 95s on tests (57% of points earned) but does no work (0% of points earned) fails (57%)? That seems punitive.

I understand that 90% of kids are in the gray area in the middle, but what grade should a student who can't pass an assessment get? They aren't prepared to move forward to the next level of course work that builds on this one. It's disingenuous to tell families this kid is a B student if they're getting 67% on tests but working hard.

I'd rather that kids were eligible to retake assessments (after doing all the skipped practice, perhaps) to prove they know more material rather than give them fluff points for doing the worksheets (or having chatgpt do the worksheets, or working with a tutor to do the worksheets). Learn it however you need to, then show me you know it.

A kid that is getting 100% on all their homework and class assignments and has nothing missing isn’t going to get a 50% on test. They just aren’t. Unless your tests are far removed from what the kids have been learning and doing in class.

Yes they are. All. The. Time.

Seriously. I actually have very few missing assignments in my gradebook for most kids (especially with the generous late work policy), but I still have a bunch of failures. I don't know where they are getting answers from and I'm not going to spend my time playing detective. The natural/logical consequence to not learning how to do the practice is that they fail the test and therefore fail the class.