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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reason they got rid of final exams has to do with the rubrics and teaching to the test.  The high flyers who got As all semesters (including those with 89.6) figured put they could get a 54 on the final exam and keep their As.

54s on final exams are not a good look, and so, no more final exams[/quote]

Interesting. So kids were using the final exams to game the grades in the opposite way of what they're doing now.

Just goes to show that MCPS sucks at its jobs and can't come up with solutions that get to the root of the problem and anticipates loopholes in their shoddily constructed policies.[/quote]

Agree, only include exams if they are meaningful. I'd like to see them move to year-long classes and have each marking period percentage (not grade) and the final exam percentage (not grade) count 20% toward the course grade. I know, I'm dreaming.[/quote]

There were a couple attempts to overhaul final exams before they were done away with. I believe they were worth a high percentage (at least 20%) of the overall grade as late as at least 2012. I know at high achieving high schools prepping and paying for tutoring for final exams was very common under that system. [b]I'd like to see them start with using numerical percentages for quarter grades then averaging those quarter grades to the semester grade.[/b] See what happens, then decide how to weight final exams.[/quote]

I think that's in fact what is being proposed for next year.[/quote]

When will they vote on that proposal? I want to weite in to support. [/quote]

I think the board doesn't vote on it since it's a change being made in the Regulation, not the Policy. [/quote]

+1 No Vote - Information only to the Board[/quote]

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