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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]College classes have like 3 grades total - a midterm, a final and a paper. Maybe one other test in between. There is a lot of reading but they aren’t grading any homework or any in between stuff. You need to read to be able to understand the lectures. And ultimately that will help you in the midterm and final.

There is no need for homework to be graded or all these little assignments - it should just be the tests and/or a paper. Period.[/quote]
College classes exist like this and are "known," but some classes, even 500 person lectures have smaller assignments that are turned in and graded by a group of TAs. This "college classes all look like X or Y" tells me that some either didn't go to college or don't remember.

Grades on smaller assignments can't help inform a kid on their progress in a topic and "hold them responsible" for their progress. This is a better alternative than retakes and grade replacements that excuse poor progress.  [/quote]

In college, I got a syllabus in the first week of the class that spelled out how I would be graded in that class.  I didn't have to guess, and I didn't have to wonder which course grade included attendance or class participation and which one was grading me solely on the mid-term and final.  I have four post-secondary degrees, so I feel like I've seen practically every permutation of college grading university professors could dream up, good, bad, and ugly.  My undergraduate university required a syllabus and required that grading be explicitly spelled out, even the the professor had wide latitude to determine the grading makeup for their specific class.  It is not the guesswork that we are seeing with this SBG BS.

I could not care less if my kid gets credit for fluffy assignments.  I do care if my kid busts their butt to recover from a poor start to the quarter and is then told at the end of the quarter that none of that matters because they're only being graded on six random assignments, three of which are from the first two weeks of the quarter.  That is not representative of college grading and does nothing at all to prepare kids for it.[/quote]
Right. The ‘this is like college’ doesn’t really hold up to scrutiny. But good hand-wavy stuff.[/quote]

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