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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You cannot talk about "overall degradation of student initiative" without speaking to the grade inflation that is the calculation of semester grades (the old A + B = A or B + C = B nonsense). Absurd. Teens are smart enough to game the system. Make the system make sense.[/quote]

Would A + B = B make sense, though? They either round up or down.[/quote]

I think trend grading would be more fair.... A + B = B and B + A = A. This is assuming that we will never go to a percent system.

Another idea... What if the grade continued from the start of the semester until the end of the semester. Quarter 1 report card would be more of a "progress report." The overall final grade will be the overall percentage of all the work from the very start of the semester. I am sure there are negatives of this system too, but it might be overall more fair. [/quote]

This sounds like rolling grade book.[/quote]

I did not know this had an official name. Thank you for replying.

Do you know any local systems using rolling grade book? What are the pros and cons?[/quote]

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