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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a teacher and understand what people are saying about mastery, grading, kids not doing the work, etc. However, 90/10 seems extreme to me. At our school it’s 60/40.[/quote]

So a kid who does 100% of the work (40% of total points earned) but gets 50% on tests (30% of total points earned) gets a C- (70%)? That seems generous.

Or a kid who can get 95s on tests (57% of points earned) but does no work (0% of points earned) fails (57%)? That seems punitive.

I understand that 90% of kids are in the gray area in the middle, but what grade should a student who can't pass an assessment get? They aren't prepared to move forward to the next level of course work that builds on this one. It's disingenuous to tell families this kid is a B student if they're getting 67% on tests but working hard.

I'd rather that kids were eligible to retake assessments (after doing all the skipped practice, perhaps) to prove they know more material rather than give them fluff points for doing the worksheets (or having chatgpt do the worksheets, or working with a tutor to do the worksheets). Learn it however you need to, then show me you know it.[/quote]

A kid that is getting 100% on all their homework and class assignments and has nothing missing isn’t going to get a 50% on test.  They just aren’t.  Unless your tests are far removed from what the kids have been learning and doing in class.  [/quote]

Tell me you aren't a teacher without telling me.

The number of kids who turn in every single worksheet, beautifully completed and then can't pass a test is not a trivial number.  Between friends and photomath and chatgpt, they are great at copying and poor at actually doing work. When I dive into the electronic assignment records they show they completed 20 math problems in 3 minutes. They chase the "free points" of homework and classwork, but don't want to spend the time/effort to do it themselves to learn the actual material.[/quote]

Still absurd.  That isn’t most kids. Kids that don’t care aren’t going through the effort to cheat on all assignments. You can’t get an A or even a B in a class if you fail all the tests and quizzes, even if you get full homework credit.  [b]Besides, all high school level classes have state standardized final exams- you must pass them in order to receive class credit. [/b] [/quote]

???

No they don't. In Virginia you only have to pass 1 high school SOL in each subject, after that you're exempt.

Of course it's not most kids. Most kids pass unit tests regardless if they did the worksheets.  But the ones who fail (Maybe 10% in any given class), the vast majority of them have all their work turned in. Parents threaten to take away their phone for missing assignments, so they rush through worksheets to turn them in without actually doing them.[/quote]

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