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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. I see a mismatch between formative and summative.  DC has lots (10+) formative assignments with 5/5, 9/9, or the occasional 11/12, etc. and then bombs the summative with 32/65.  Yes, he'll be doing the retake.  But that's a big disconnect.  Makes no sense.  [/quote]

I find that in my class, formative assignments are often open note (problem sets in class with today's notes in front of them), involve discussions with partners ("Did you also get x=5 for #3?", or have multiple rounds of students handing me things asking "is this right?" before submitting it.  If the only things I put in formative were truly mini daily quizzes without any immediate feedback or peer help or notes access, the formative grades would match the summatives much more closely.

But then I suspect I would get a LOT more complaints from kids and families that their grades are too low. They want the fluff of completion work. They don't want to see Cs on daily quizzes and Cs on tests, they want participation points and homework grades and things kids get 100% on because they work hard, not because they necessarily master the material. That brings their Cs on tests up to a B for the year.

Right now our gradebook is caught in the inbetween land.  It's not "kids who work hard will get As" and it's not "really smart kids can get As without any busy work". We can't go to the 90/10 that I would personally like (assessment vs. practice), because then no one will do the practice and therefore no one will pass the tests, so this is as close as I suspect we will get.[/quote]

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