IB class grading

[Anonymous]

Are students graded on the IB 1-7 scale? If so, is that how it is reported on their report cards, 1-7 as opposed to A-F or percentages? How does it translate into GPA? Are IB grades worth the same as AP grades when computing GPA?

[Anonymous]

OP, is your student not yet in IB or is your student finishing his or her first semester of IB in high school--? If your student is already in IB you should have been seeing quarter grades that were . I can only speak for FCPS but what you will see coming home on SIS or report cards is letter grades and the GPA numbers that you are used to seeing. IB and the FCPS traditional A-F scale have to work together and it's often tricky for parents to try to translate the IB scale into the traditional A-F scale meaningfully. Your student should be able to explain this to you, and if he or she can't, it means the school's IB staff haven't done enough to explain it to the students themselves.

What you'll see on the FCPS report card will be number (0-100) and letter (A-F) grades like you're used to, not a "6" as a semester grade, for instance. I don't know how other IB schools do it outside FCPS, though.

[Anonymous]

She's not in the program yet, but I was wondering how it worked. It sounds like the teachers translate the grades into a letter or number? So a 7 is an A, etc?

[Anonymous]

I teach in an IBMYP middle school.

We are required to give 2 IB assessments each quarter, assessing each of the 4 criteria twice over the course of the year. Those grades are counted on a rubric of 0-8, which has a crosswalk to a percent in my gradebook. 8=100%, 7=91%, 6=86%...0=50%. My gradebook is populated with 90% traditional grades, 10% IB grades.

Each school has adopted a slightly different methodology though. It depends how the IB coordinator and the school decided to implement the program. It's not as cookie cutter as one would think from the outside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach in an IBMYP middle school.

We are required to give 2 IB assessments each quarter, assessing each of the 4 criteria twice over the course of the year. Those grades are counted on a rubric of 0-8, which has a crosswalk to a percent in my gradebook. 8=100%, 7=91%, 6=86%...0=50%. My gradebook is populated with 90% traditional grades, 10% IB grades.

Each school has adopted a slightly different methodology though. It depends how the IB coordinator and the school decided to implement the program. It's not as cookie cutter as one would think from the outside.

Thanks! Very helpful!