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Reply to "HS Teachers, I'm curious-- do this semester's grade distributions look different from prior years?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The downside is when a kid has a tough first quarter in a class, gets a B (84.5)for whatever reason then tries really hard and has a 93 for the second quarter, but still ends up with a B for the semester as if they hadn’t tried hard the last half. Sort of demoralizing for that kid. Seems like they could find a way to do this where an A above a certain level means the semester remains a A? That is upward trajectory of effort and skills, is it not? Makes some kids feel like “ why did I put in so much more effort if I still end up with the B?” (Or C in some other cases for others other there I am sure)[/quote] In the past, the final exam helped in this respect. If a student had a B and an A (either order), the final exam decided the semester grade. Teachers would help students learn the concepts so that they could do well on the final. Last year, it was simply about doing the assignment.[/quote]
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