Can one assignment be worth 60 percent of grade?

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Anonymous wrote:If there are only 5 assignments so far wouldn't it make sense that there will be other assignments coming. So, right now this assignments looks like it is worth 60% but that will change as more grades get entered.

Look at the date of the OP. No there are no more assignments.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it actually posted as one grade, or is it broken into parts? A bigger project can be broken into multiple parts due at different times and entered as separate grades.

It’s posted as one grade. There are five assignments and this is one of them but it’s worth 60 percent of the grade.

Five assignments for the whole marking period is not allowed. The minimum is 13.

My kid is in a similar situation. Six assignments for the quarter, one of which was worth 55%. The big assignment was due late September, but the 50% grade was not entered until very late in the day on Monday. (I checked Monday afternoon, and the kid had an A. Tuesday, a C.) My kid struggles with organization, but I don't know how we can help when the teacher waits to input the problem grade until the very last minute, 6 weeks after the assignment was due.

This will be easy to fix since it is a clear violation of the grading policy. Email the teacher.

I am this PP (not the OP). Teacher is allowing DD to resubmit for a grade change. Did not have to go to Admin.

Thank goodness. How else will DD be prepared for college if she can’t retake and redo assignments until she gets the grade she wants? Teachers need to know this!

MCPS has rules about grading that the teacher didn’t follow. In college, if the prof put out a syllabus at the beginning of the term with grading policies and then, on the day grades were due, changed how the final grade was calculated, I would 100% want my child to know that they can talk to the professor about that, particularly if they will have that prof again the next term.

MCPS ”clarified” the grading policy after several weeks of school when many teachers had already assigned “too many” assessments in the 90% category. This forced teachers to combine multiple grades in order to avoid exceeding the number allowed.

This particular teacher had fewer than the minimum number of assignments, so I don’t think that was the issue here. But interesting to hear that the policies themselves are not necessarily clear to the teachers.

Policies are often confusing and unclear to teachers especially relatively new teachers

OP again. This teacher has decades of experience at this school. It’s not inexperience. She does this every time. It’s the first time my kid did poorly* on that one assignment though.

*”poorly” being relative here. It was still a decent grade but bought the overall grade down significantly.

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Why does this policy exist in the first place? Sometimes I think MCPS makes things so watered down and easy that it’s not doing our kids any favors.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it actually posted as one grade, or is it broken into parts? A bigger project can be broken into multiple parts due at different times and entered as separate grades.

It’s posted as one grade. There are five assignments and this is one of them but it’s worth 60 percent of the grade.

Five assignments for the whole marking period is not allowed. The minimum is 13.

My kid is in a similar situation. Six assignments for the quarter, one of which was worth 55%. The big assignment was due late September, but the 50% grade was not entered until very late in the day on Monday. (I checked Monday afternoon, and the kid had an A. Tuesday, a C.) My kid struggles with organization, but I don't know how we can help when the teacher waits to input the problem grade until the very last minute, 6 weeks after the assignment was due.

This will be easy to fix since it is a clear violation of the grading policy. Email the teacher.

I am this PP (not the OP). Teacher is allowing DD to resubmit for a grade change. Did not have to go to Admin.

Thank goodness. How else will DD be prepared for college if she can’t retake and redo assignments until she gets the grade she wants? Teachers need to know this!

MCPS has rules about grading that the teacher didn’t follow. In college, if the prof put out a syllabus at the beginning of the term with grading policies and then, on the day grades were due, changed how the final grade was calculated, I would 100% want my child to know that they can talk to the professor about that, particularly if they will have that prof again the next term.

MCPS ”clarified” the grading policy after several weeks of school when many teachers had already assigned “too many” assessments in the 90% category. This forced teachers to combine multiple grades in order to avoid exceeding the number allowed.

This particular teacher had fewer than the minimum number of assignments, so I don’t think that was the issue here. But interesting to hear that the policies themselves are not necessarily clear to the teachers.

Policies are often confusing and unclear to teachers especially relatively new teachers

OP again. This teacher has decades of experience at this school. It’s not inexperience. She does this every time. It’s the first time my kid did poorly* on that one assignment though.

*”poorly” being relative here. It was still a decent grade but bought the overall grade down significantly.

Perhaps, they'll take these assignments more seriously going forward and they will have learned a valuable life lesson in the proces.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it actually posted as one grade, or is it broken into parts? A bigger project can be broken into multiple parts due at different times and entered as separate grades.

It’s posted as one grade. There are five assignments and this is one of them but it’s worth 60 percent of the grade.

Five assignments for the whole marking period is not allowed. The minimum is 13.

My kid is in a similar situation. Six assignments for the quarter, one of which was worth 55%. The big assignment was due late September, but the 50% grade was not entered until very late in the day on Monday. (I checked Monday afternoon, and the kid had an A. Tuesday, a C.) My kid struggles with organization, but I don't know how we can help when the teacher waits to input the problem grade until the very last minute, 6 weeks after the assignment was due.

This will be easy to fix since it is a clear violation of the grading policy. Email the teacher.

I am this PP (not the OP). Teacher is allowing DD to resubmit for a grade change. Did not have to go to Admin.

Thank goodness. How else will DD be prepared for college if she can’t retake and redo assignments until she gets the grade she wants? Teachers need to know this!

MCPS has rules about grading that the teacher didn’t follow. In college, if the prof put out a syllabus at the beginning of the term with grading policies and then, on the day grades were due, changed how the final grade was calculated, I would 100% want my child to know that they can talk to the professor about that, particularly if they will have that prof again the next term.

MCPS ”clarified” the grading policy after several weeks of school when many teachers had already assigned “too many” assessments in the 90% category. This forced teachers to combine multiple grades in order to avoid exceeding the number allowed.

This particular teacher had fewer than the minimum number of assignments, so I don’t think that was the issue here. But interesting to hear that the policies themselves are not necessarily clear to the teachers.

Policies are often confusing and unclear to teachers especially relatively new teachers

OP again. This teacher has decades of experience at this school. It’s not inexperience. She does this every time. It’s the first time my kid did poorly* on that one assignment though.

*”poorly” being relative here. It was still a decent grade but bought the overall grade down significantly.

Perhaps, they'll take these assignments more seriously going forward and they will have learned a valuable life lesson in the proces.

Doubt it. The only lesson MCPS seems to want to instill with its grading policies is that if at first you don't succeed, don't worry, you can take the assignment over and over again until you've done it so many times you're bound to get it right.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it actually posted as one grade, or is it broken into parts? A bigger project can be broken into multiple parts due at different times and entered as separate grades.

It’s posted as one grade. There are five assignments and this is one of them but it’s worth 60 percent of the grade.

Five assignments for the whole marking period is not allowed. The minimum is 13.

My kid is in a similar situation. Six assignments for the quarter, one of which was worth 55%. The big assignment was due late September, but the 50% grade was not entered until very late in the day on Monday. (I checked Monday afternoon, and the kid had an A. Tuesday, a C.) My kid struggles with organization, but I don't know how we can help when the teacher waits to input the problem grade until the very last minute, 6 weeks after the assignment was due.

This will be easy to fix since it is a clear violation of the grading policy. Email the teacher.

I am this PP (not the OP). Teacher is allowing DD to resubmit for a grade change. Did not have to go to Admin.

Thank goodness. How else will DD be prepared for college if she can’t retake and redo assignments until she gets the grade she wants? Teachers need to know this!

MCPS has rules about grading that the teacher didn’t follow. In college, if the prof put out a syllabus at the beginning of the term with grading policies and then, on the day grades were due, changed how the final grade was calculated, I would 100% want my child to know that they can talk to the professor about that, particularly if they will have that prof again the next term.

MCPS ”clarified” the grading policy after several weeks of school when many teachers had already assigned “too many” assessments in the 90% category. This forced teachers to combine multiple grades in order to avoid exceeding the number allowed.

This particular teacher had fewer than the minimum number of assignments, so I don’t think that was the issue here. But interesting to hear that the policies themselves are not necessarily clear to the teachers.

Policies are often confusing and unclear to teachers especially relatively new teachers

OP again. This teacher has decades of experience at this school. It’s not inexperience. She does this every time. It’s the first time my kid did poorly* on that one assignment though.

*”poorly” being relative here. It was still a decent grade but bought the overall grade down significantly.

Perhaps, they'll take these assignments more seriously going forward and they will have learned a valuable life lesson in the proces.

Who is “they”? The teacher who didn’t follow the rules? Or the kid who got an A?

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Anonymous wrote:Is it actually posted as one grade, or is it broken into parts? A bigger project can be broken into multiple parts due at different times and entered as separate grades.

It’s posted as one grade. There are five assignments and this is one of them but it’s worth 60 percent of the grade.

Five assignments for the whole marking period is not allowed. The minimum is 13.

My kid is in a similar situation. Six assignments for the quarter, one of which was worth 55%. The big assignment was due late September, but the 50% grade was not entered until very late in the day on Monday. (I checked Monday afternoon, and the kid had an A. Tuesday, a C.) My kid struggles with organization, but I don't know how we can help when the teacher waits to input the problem grade until the very last minute, 6 weeks after the assignment was due.

That's unacceptable. Six weeks? The teacher couldn't get a grade entered in SIX weeks?

I'd definitely report that to someone.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it actually posted as one grade, or is it broken into parts? A bigger project can be broken into multiple parts due at different times and entered as separate grades.

It’s posted as one grade. There are five assignments and this is one of them but it’s worth 60 percent of the grade.

Five assignments for the whole marking period is not allowed. The minimum is 13.

My kid is in a similar situation. Six assignments for the quarter, one of which was worth 55%. The big assignment was due late September, but the 50% grade was not entered until very late in the day on Monday. (I checked Monday afternoon, and the kid had an A. Tuesday, a C.) My kid struggles with organization, but I don't know how we can help when the teacher waits to input the problem grade until the very last minute, 6 weeks after the assignment was due.

This will be easy to fix since it is a clear violation of the grading policy. Email the teacher.

I am this PP (not the OP). Teacher is allowing DD to resubmit for a grade change. Did not have to go to Admin.

Thank goodness. How else will DD be prepared for college if she can’t retake and redo assignments until she gets the grade she wants? Teachers need to know this!

MCPS has rules about grading that the teacher didn’t follow. In college, if the prof put out a syllabus at the beginning of the term with grading policies and then, on the day grades were due, changed how the final grade was calculated, I would 100% want my child to know that they can talk to the professor about that, particularly if they will have that prof again the next term.

MCPS ”clarified” the grading policy after several weeks of school when many teachers had already assigned “too many” assessments in the 90% category. This forced teachers to combine multiple grades in order to avoid exceeding the number allowed.

This particular teacher had fewer than the minimum number of assignments, so I don’t think that was the issue here. But interesting to hear that the policies themselves are not necessarily clear to the teachers.

Policies are often confusing and unclear to teachers especially relatively new teachers

OP again. This teacher has decades of experience at this school. It’s not inexperience. She does this every time. It’s the first time my kid did poorly* on that one assignment though.

*”poorly” being relative here. It was still a decent grade but bought the overall grade down significantly.

Perhaps, they'll take these assignments more seriously going forward and they will have learned a valuable life lesson in the proces.

Doubt it. The only lesson MCPS seems to want to instill with its grading policies is that if at first you don't succeed, don't worry, you can take the assignment over and over again until you've done it so many times you're bound to get it right.

100% for everyone!!!!!

[Anonymous]

There is little consistency across the county when it comes to implementation and oversight of the grading policy. My admin sends warning notices to teachers once an assignment is 22% even if it’s early in the marking period and additional assignments after interims will balance it out. Meanwhile, DCUM reports multiple schools with assignments above 50% of the grade.