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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To be fair, the purpose of grading is to measure how well a student understands the material and how well they can complete the skill under a time constraint. For the teacher, grading should be looked at individually and as a whole. If the entire class is missing one question or section then the teacher needs to course correction as they didn’t word or present the material adequately. For the student, grading is part of the learning cycle where they learn more by seeing what they got wrong, understanding why and should be in a position to course correction and do better the next time.

Of course none of this happens because students drop assignments and tests into a black box where the teacher doesn’t return them until the day before quarter ends or much later or maybe never. Tests may be quickly reviewed in class but they are snatched back so the teacher isn’t bothered to create more than one test. This deprives students of an excellent end of year study guide but god forbid the teacher do anything pedagogical.

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This is all true but I wouldn’t frame it as a knock on the teachers.  McPS doesn’t give them the time to give the feedback or get grading done timely.  Also, in college if a prof realizes a test was bad because one or more questions were poorly phrased or too hard, they can adjust the grades or give extra credit or something.  I remember in my HS physics cclass, the teacher gave an army assignment that was impossible and almost everyone failed it, so the teacher assigned an additional assignment as “extra credit” to account for it.  McPS  doesn’t allow extra credit or grading on a carve.  I do think people are gojng to complain more about unfair grading or violations of the grading policy — that currently happens a lot but parents let it go because it so rarely makes a difference under the current grading policy.  [/quote]

Good news! The new policy requires teachers to return graded school work within 10 school days.[/quote]

DP. And I assume the county isn’t giving teachers any additional time to get this done, right? Just more demands on teachers’ home lives? [/quote]

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