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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can get on board with retakes, but with two caveats:

1) You can't do infinite retakes. You get one chance

2) Your grade on the retake is capped at a B. You shouldn't be able to flunk a test and then walk away with an A. That completely devalues those who made the effort to work hard and prep for the test the first time.[/quote]

The end goal is that they walk away from the class knowing math, not putting a premium on acing the test the first time. [/quote]

There are multiple goals with education. One goal is knowing, another end goal is learning effective work-study habits, time management and organizational skills.

Generous retake policies [i]might[/i] help with the former, but they [i]definitely[/i] harm the latter.[/quote]

My issue with this is that they grade the kids on soft skills, but they don't make it an explicit objective and they certainly don't teach them. The ones who pick it up naturally or learn from their parents do well and everyone else gets bad grades because they didn't know how to do something they were never taught.

I do think that the better way to approach this is to *teach* those soft skills--in a separate study sills class--rather than just make learning content the entire objective. But there are so many different issues at play here that I don't know how anybody who has really dug into the research on both sides can feel 100% confident in their opinion. [/quote]

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