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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just want a key to what things mean.

My kid has a T/19.  What the heck is a T?  How can a missing assignment have a grade?  Does 4/8 mean my kid did poorly or didn’t hand it in?[/quote]
The terminology has changed since we were in school. Instead of homework, there are “practice” assignments and “tasks.” Instead of quizzes and tests there are “exit cards” and “assessments.” I assume “T” is “All Tasks.”

Last year, (some? all?) high schools implemented a systems where a final grade of 50% meant the assignment was never turned in. Some teachers enter it into the grade book as a 0 until final grades are due so it’s obvious the assignment wasn’t turned in and students feel some urgency to pull up their grades by turning the assignment in, even though it’s late. Other teachers enter it as 50% right off the bat. In order to differentiate between assignments that were never turned in at all and assignments that were turned in but their actual grade was 50%, as long as a student makes any effort to work on the assignment and turns it in, the grade will be 50.1%.[/quote]
To clarify, 50% grades for assignments that were never handed in wasn’t new; the new part was giving 50.1% to students in lieu of 50% when that was the actual grade earned.[/quote]

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