Rolling gradebook?

[Anonymous]

Are second quarter grades impacted by the first quarter with the rolling gradebook? Or only the final?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are second quarter grades impacted by the first quarter with the rolling gradebook? Or only the final?

Yes, they are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are second quarter grades impacted by the first quarter with the rolling gradebook? Or only the final?

Think of quarterly grades as "CUMULATIVE" grades. Every reporting period is a CUMULATIVE grade... on the way toward the end of the year (i.e. final) grade. They report the progress in Nov., Feb, and April... but it is showing the progress toward the final grade.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are second quarter grades impacted by the first quarter with the rolling gradebook? Or only the final?

Yes, they are.

How is that fair? It’s a new quarter!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are second quarter grades impacted by the first quarter with the rolling gradebook? Or only the final?

Yes, they are.

I don’t get this. Why should a bad test in the first quarter impact your grade in the second quarter? Especially as it’s a totally different unit?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are second quarter grades impacted by the first quarter with the rolling gradebook? Or only the final?

Yes, they are.

I don’t get this. Why should a bad test in the first quarter impact your grade in the second quarter? Especially as it’s a totally different unit?

There is only 1 grade given per course. You get a single grade for “honors biology”.

In the old system, 4 grades were averaged to get that grade. 1st quarter tests affected that final grade.
In the new system, it’s one massive “quarter”. September tests still affect the end of year grade.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are second quarter grades impacted by the first quarter with the rolling gradebook? Or only the final?

Yes, they are.

I don’t get this. Why should a bad test in the first quarter impact your grade in the second quarter? Especially as it’s a totally different unit?

There is only 1 grade given per course. You get a single grade for “honors biology”.

In the old system, 4 grades were averaged to get that grade. 1st quarter tests affected that final grade.
In the new system, it’s one massive “quarter”. September tests still affect the end of year grade.

That’s absolutely ridiculous! Why should what you do in the first quarter impact all other quarters? Each quarter should be separate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are second quarter grades impacted by the first quarter with the rolling gradebook? Or only the final?

Yes, they are.

I don’t get this. Why should a bad test in the first quarter impact your grade in the second quarter? Especially as it’s a totally different unit?

There is only 1 grade given per course. You get a single grade for “honors biology”.

In the old system, 4 grades were averaged to get that grade. 1st quarter tests affected that final grade.
In the new system, it’s one massive “quarter”. September tests still affect the end of year grade.

That’s absolutely ridiculous! Why should what you do in the first quarter impact all other quarters? Each quarter should be separate.

I guess the idea is kids can recover from a bad quarter?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are second quarter grades impacted by the first quarter with the rolling gradebook? Or only the final?

Yes, they are.

I don’t get this. Why should a bad test in the first quarter impact your grade in the second quarter? Especially as it’s a totally different unit?

There is only 1 grade given per course. You get a single grade for “honors biology”.

In the old system, 4 grades were averaged to get that grade. 1st quarter tests affected that final grade.
In the new system, it’s one massive “quarter”. September tests still affect the end of year grade.

That’s absolutely ridiculous! Why should what you do in the first quarter impact all other quarters? Each quarter should be separate.

I guess the idea is kids can recover from a bad quarter?

Seems like yet another new idea in education that someone came up with who doesn't actually like kids. Or people in general.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are second quarter grades impacted by the first quarter with the rolling gradebook? Or only the final?

Yes, they are.

I don’t get this. Why should a bad test in the first quarter impact your grade in the second quarter? Especially as it’s a totally different unit?

Because the rolling grade book is a paradigm shift.

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Anonymous wrote:Are second quarter grades impacted by the first quarter with the rolling gradebook? Or only the final?

Yes, they are.

I don’t get this. Why should a bad test in the first quarter impact your grade in the second quarter? Especially as it’s a totally different unit?

There is only 1 grade given per course. You get a single grade for “honors biology”.

In the old system, 4 grades were averaged to get that grade. 1st quarter tests affected that final grade.
In the new system, it’s one massive “quarter”. September tests still affect the end of year grade.

That’s absolutely ridiculous! Why should what you do in the first quarter impact all other quarters? Each quarter should be separate.

I guess the idea is kids can recover from a bad quarter?

Seems like yet another new idea in education that someone came up with who doesn't actually like kids. Or people in general.

You do understand that only the final grade is sent to colleges, right? The interim grades are as they’ve always been informative for the student, parents and teachers. Now you have to understand how to interpret those iterim grades because they were calculated different when parents went to school. Sheesh.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are second quarter grades impacted by the first quarter with the rolling gradebook? Or only the final?

Yes, they are.

I don’t get this. Why should a bad test in the first quarter impact your grade in the second quarter? Especially as it’s a totally different unit?

There is only 1 grade given per course. You get a single grade for “honors biology”.

In the old system, 4 grades were averaged to get that grade. 1st quarter tests affected that final grade.
In the new system, it’s one massive “quarter”. September tests still affect the end of year grade.

That’s absolutely ridiculous! Why should what you do in the first quarter impact all other quarters? Each quarter should be separate.

Ummm...becsuse the grade they are reporting to you 3 times prior to the final is your PROGRESS toward the final grade that you are ultimately trying to obtain.

The "quarter" reports are PROGRESS REPORTS. They are "year-to-date" grade reports.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are second quarter grades impacted by the first quarter with the rolling gradebook? Or only the final?

Yes, they are.

I don’t get this. Why should a bad test in the first quarter impact your grade in the second quarter? Especially as it’s a totally different unit?

There is only 1 grade given per course. You get a single grade for “honors biology”.

In the old system, 4 grades were averaged to get that grade. 1st quarter tests affected that final grade.
In the new system, it’s one massive “quarter”. September tests still affect the end of year grade.

That’s absolutely ridiculous! Why should what you do in the first quarter impact all other quarters? Each quarter should be separate.

I guess the idea is kids can recover from a bad quarter?

Seems like yet another new idea in education that someone came up with who doesn't actually like kids. Or people in general.

You do understand that only the final grade is sent to colleges, right? The interim grades are as they’ve always been informative for the student, parents and teachers. Now you have to understand how to interpret those iterim grades because they were calculated different when parents went to school. Sheesh.

The grades for the quarter are for the student - the psychological effect is for the benefit of the student. Why do we want to take that away? Because...why?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are second quarter grades impacted by the first quarter with the rolling gradebook? Or only the final?

Yes, they are.

I don’t get this. Why should a bad test in the first quarter impact your grade in the second quarter? Especially as it’s a totally different unit?

There is only 1 grade given per course. You get a single grade for “honors biology”.

In the old system, 4 grades were averaged to get that grade. 1st quarter tests affected that final grade.
In the new system, it’s one massive “quarter”. September tests still affect the end of year grade.

That’s absolutely ridiculous! Why should what you do in the first quarter impact all other quarters? Each quarter should be separate.

I guess the idea is kids can recover from a bad quarter?

Seems like yet another new idea in education that someone came up with who doesn't actually like kids. Or people in general.

You do understand that only the final grade is sent to colleges, right? The interim grades are as they’ve always been informative for the student, parents and teachers. Now you have to understand how to interpret those iterim grades because they were calculated different when parents went to school. Sheesh.

This is for middle school. Why would a middle school need a rolling grade book?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are second quarter grades impacted by the first quarter with the rolling gradebook? Or only the final?

Yes, they are.

I don’t get this. Why should a bad test in the first quarter impact your grade in the second quarter? Especially as it’s a totally different unit?

There is only 1 grade given per course. You get a single grade for “honors biology”.

In the old system, 4 grades were averaged to get that grade. 1st quarter tests affected that final grade.
In the new system, it’s one massive “quarter”. September tests still affect the end of year grade.

That’s absolutely ridiculous! Why should what you do in the first quarter impact all other quarters? Each quarter should be separate.

I guess the idea is kids can recover from a bad quarter?

Seems like yet another new idea in education that someone came up with who doesn't actually like kids. Or people in general.

You do understand that only the final grade is sent to colleges, right? The interim grades are as they’ve always been informative for the student, parents and teachers. Now you have to understand how to interpret those iterim grades because they were calculated different when parents went to school. Sheesh.

This is for middle school. Why would a middle school need a rolling grade book?

To prepare for high school - this is the same reason that middle school has block scheduling.

And pretty soon, rolling grade book and block scheduling will be pushed down to elementary school too, to prepare the students.

None of this makes any sense.