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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope not. 60/40 is far more reasonable. 70/30 is a disaster for most students.
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what i don't understand is how can this be a disaster if students have numerous opportunities to retake with the possibility of scoring a 100.

then all those 100s at 70% are awesome.

also, a D now is a 60% whereas last year it was no lower than a 64%.

Everything has been done to help students earn credits and graduate on time. [/quote]

It's a disaster for my sped student who is very diligent but not a good test taker. Retakes are not fixing the issue.[/quote]  They're finding the help they need is being taken over by all the strivers who want their 95% to become a 98%.  It's a backlog for those who need help and need their 70% to become a B or more.[/quote]

Schools are only required to provide one retake opportunity to 100%. Kids who don't test well or have disabilities and extended time and are in constant catch up mode essentially have no retake opportunities. If teachers actually provide summatives in multiple modalities it's great too, but everyone defaults to as few tests as possible, which results in high stakes tests.[/quote]

The high stakes tests is what's really annoying.  [/quote]

The ones where you miss one question and it drags you a grade down and there are only few tests to be able to improve.  If you give one test the grade depends on (most of it) and there are 15 questions, chances of getting a high grade are vastly reduced just from math perspective alone.  Might as well do heads and tails coin toss  :lol: [/quote]

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