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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are retests allowed? Is there a maximum grade allowed from a retest? [/quote]
Not at our school, and obviously it would be highly unfair to those students who study and get the test right the first time.

But the teacher allows test corrections to be submitted that count for 25% of the missed points if correct. 
Example: you get an 80/100 and resubmit correct answers for what you missed, you end up with a 80 + 0.25 * 20 = 85. [/quote]

that sounds like the fairest policy and ensures that teachers show the kids which things they missed. I'd vote for this for an FCPS wide rule. Only allowing retests for under 90. [/quote]

If it’s about mastery and not ranking, shouldn’t retests be blanket allowance for anyone able to retake.  So whether get C, B or even A- should be allowed to retake or if got A and want to try to go from 98% to 100%.  Isn’t limiting who can retake a class rank mentality, which thought FCPS moving away from?[/quote]

In a perfect world, maybe.  In the real world, it wouldn't work the way you seem to think it would.  Teachers have to write a new test for the retakes.  Writing new tests is time consumptive, so the teacher is likely to create a test that is pretty similar to the previous one.  Kids can game the system and learn even less, since they can use the first testing to scope out the test and see what they need to study, and then they can get high grades on the second test while still learning less of the material than the kid who studied everything the first time and got a 90.  My school offered retests back in the 90s, and tons of kids did exactly that to minimize how much they needed to learn.

Letting kids retake As for even higher As just creates a lot of extra work for already overburdened teachers.  [/quote]

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