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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not so much about not allowing late work but more about eliminating a grade for homework, classwork and class participation. The idea is that a kid who fails to routinely do that type of work has a low grade for those areas, and even if he aced a test, his grade is still brought way down. By eliminating all of the other non major work grades, and focusing just on the major work grades, the students are graded solely on what they know, not what they are still mastering. That means if a kid gets a B on a quiz but an A on the test, the quiz is thrown out because the test showed mastery.

Obviously, this hurts the students who put the effort in from the beginning because he gets no credit for that and no grade buffer added in to help raise a lower test grade. Other HSs in FCPS already do this. It should be universal throughout FCPS one way or another and I would prefer it gone.

My niece attends a school that uses this. As a former teacher, I hate it. It punishes the kids who are hard workers but maybe not all As all the time.[/quote]

I don't know how Lake Braddock will implement this but what you've described is the opposite of equity grading.  Those grades for HW, classwork, and participation were added in order to reduce the impact of bad test grades -- as a form of equity grading.  [/quote]

Yeah, from what I recall these things were specifically given by teachers so that the students who weren't as strong/didn't have as much time to study had stuff in their grades that would boost their scores up, even when they couldn't get As/Bs on tests. (I mean, aren't we seeing the argument that 'just doing tests' isn't fair? Isn't that what people complain about AAP for? Isn't that why some wanted the TJ admission test eliminated? Because standardized tests aren't equitable?)

I'd honestly have been fine with the 'just the test' grading method, but I'd imagine this would hurt minority scores, wouldn't it? [/quote]

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