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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Luckily this hasn’t been needed yet, but I’d want to know whether an E my child earned was 5% or 50%. I’d value that info.[/quote]

Why? 50% is cause enough for alarm, once it's an F I'd want to see the test, the score doesn't carry the information.[/quote]
 
Getting less than a 50% can doom some kids to failure.  Staff typically give one assessment per week,  so if a C student gets an extremely grade, it puts them in a hole that is very hard to climb out of for the rest of the semester.  The kid can basically say, “ I am going to fail anyways so why bother trying for the rest of the quarter.”  The 50%rule for minimum effort/success gives the student a fighting chance not to fail a class.  [/quote]

Yes.  Even though grades are reported as a percentage, the meaningful scores are supposed to be a distribution between 50 and 100 with 75 as the median.  Then one failing grade and one perfect grade average to a 75--sensible enough.  If scores bellow 50% are introduced it means more than one assessment is necessary to even hope to fight back to a mediocre grade, and this disproportionally hits students who are already struggling.  This isn't a new concept, when people talk about letter grades, this is the implicit meaning.  It's only when scoring is taken too literally, that there needs to be a rule.  The way to avoid it is for the rubric to assign 50% of the points to the failing student.  English teachers usually don't have a problem with this--there's no urge to put a 20% score on an essay that receiving an E, 50% is already rock bottom.[/quote]

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