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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Worse than the rolling gradebook is the required 7 assignments. Teachers spend a lot of time just trying to collect work from students to meet that goal. There's no research for that either. School board members get some emails and phone calls from a couple of squeaky wheels and start making radical changes without any kind of research. That's the problem with a school board run by politicians who are just looking for a stepping stone to another office.[/quote]

This makes more sense to me in terms of wanting to have multiple data points to assess student learning so in that sense I would say that actually is research based.

A rolling gradebook is a going to have real impacts on student motivation and will make it harder to view achievement trends. And may actually lead to less overall grades meaning students will actually have less opportunities to demonstrate their learning.

Implementing such a huge change that without a large body of research to back it up is concerning.

The fact is that rolling gradebook is great for some content areas or types of courses but doesn’t work well for others. This is what many FCPS educators who are in the classroom are saying.

Teachers are feeling more and more like they have less and less say on new policies that are rolled out on the county level. If strong research is there to support a policy, buy-in will be increased. But when the research isn’t there, teachers start to feel stuck in a washing machine of changing policies implemented without much forethought.

Where is the research that indicates rolling gradebook is indeed better for student outcomes and balances teacher support?

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What is your main issue with rolling gradebook?[/quote]

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