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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is how Madison explains it. It is insanity! However, it seems more like grade inflation than a detriment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNvfPlr3YKI&t=715s[/quote]

It is grade inflation for the students who would previously had failed. But it is also grade deflation at the top, which teachers confirmed at back to school night. Much harder to get an A.  [/quote]

How?

This example would have been B C B A vs what it was B B A A.

A good student at the top would just have A A A A or maybe 3 Bs and an A or what this example kid got 2 Bs and 2 As. How does that deflate a top student? It doesn't. You can only go up, not down. Trick is to start strong and keep your grades up, which is what every kid has to do. Madison is actually making things easier because the kid doesn't have to improve on content (re-assess), just do better on next content. Seems a poster child for grade inflation. [/quote]

Except, as my DCs teachers have all explained, students should not expect to get As early on. That would indicate mastery level, which students should not be attaining at the start of the course (the rationale being that if they were, they should be in a higher level class).

Last year, I was told by a teacher directly that the course average, across all sections/teachers for that class, was a C at the end of first quarter and the department felt that was appropriate under SBG. It made improvement to A level both difficult and stressful, and resulted in odd, unexplained, last minute grade changes in SIS (I assume to account for “reassessment”?) at the end of 4th quarter. [/quote]

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