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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Students have been taking these assessments for a while, but because they weren’t “for a grade” kids don’t take them seriously. MCPS has been trying to make sure kids are on track for graduation and to pass state level tests, but the internal assessments (low because kids don’t care) and the course grades (high due to retakes) don’t match and they really can’t tell where kids are in their learning. Including them in the quarter grades should improve accuracy about where kids are at and is similar to how the state is rolling the state test into their grades. [/quote]

To me, a 14 point assessment makes sense as part of the AT 90% (and may actually be 10% of the points in a quarter for the class) but pulling that out as a separate 10% assessment seems a little too hard-azz and makes it hard for kids on the border of the different letter grades to have mobility over the course of the semester.[/quote]

You don't even know what the 14 is out of and it will be different for each teacher. It could be all quizzes are 5 points so could be a lot more than 10% of the grade. My child's teacher never told them these tests count as a grade. She just assumed they don't count because they have never counted. What the heck? [/quote]

This is the biggest problem I have.  No one warned kids or families the the District Exams were going to be counting for as much.  Further they are not giving fair warning that the district assessment is coming up.  Yes, kids are actually going to class and getting surprised with these test.[/quote]
This isn’t as big a deal as some seem to think it is. The grading policy already allows assignments to be up to 25% of the quarter grade. Just because a very specific assignment is broken out so they can pull that specific data across the county does not mean there’s really any impact to course grades.[/quote]

I think it depends on the calculation, right? Say someone gets 7/14 on the particular county assessment. Does that 50% get locked as a separate 10% of the grade, or is it balanced with the rest of the AT points?  I get tracking the data, but there are ways that this could be extremely detrimental to GPA[/quote]

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