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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So we've got Lake Braddock, Mountain View Alternative, and Oakton that allow up to 100%. South Lakes allows up to an 86%. Any others?

My own kids are at Chantilly. They allow up to an 80% there. I have a senior applying to colleges this season, and I am going to ask their counselor if this type of information is included in the school profile that is sent to colleges. I must admit that I am surprised that Oakton allows up to 100%... I always considered them to be a high-performing, peer school of Chantilly's. [/quote]

Madison does reassessments under the mumbo jumbo of equity grading, so I guess that is up to 100%.[/quote]

Luckily, SBG will go away for next school year and beyond.[/quote]

Really? where is that mentioned by FCPS?[/quote]

On their website: https://www.fcps.edu/academics/grading-and-reporting/secondary/grading-scale#:~:text=In%20the%202024%2D25%20school,4.0%20scale%20during%20this%20year.

Here is the quote if you do not want to click the link:

[i]FCPS currently has two approved grading scales
the 4 point scale.
the 100-point scale.

In the 2024-25 school year, FCPS will transition to a single scale, the 100-point scale. The 2023-24 school year is a transition year, and no teams or teachers should be moving to the 4.0 scale during this year.[/i][/quote]

I don't understand. Standards based grading is not the 4.0 scale. What you are mentioning is only the 4.0 scale. Standards based grading means that you are graded on "skills" or "standards" rather than assignments. Assignments and tests are broken into skill groups for grading. The civil war assessment might be broken up into a writing standard, a comprehension standard, an analysis standard, a creativity standard. FCPS also added some other criteria to their new standards based grading which do not need to be part of standards based grading but they did anyway. Only whole letter grades for assessments. This is just their new policy for grading probably because now each assessment gets multiple skill grades. They also did away with retakes and instead they replace old grades with the same grade that you get on the next assessment if you improve because you are improving on the skill. So if you take a civil war assessment and do poorly on analysis and get a C, but then take a reconstruction assessment and get a B on analysis, FCPS replaces your C from the previous test with a B. You don't actually retake the civil war assessment to have better analysis understanding of the civil war under this new grading system.[/quote]

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