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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think I asked this before, but did the new re-take policy make things worse for teachers? If so, why not go back to you can only retake if below80% and you can only get up to an 80%? That way, students are pushed to study hard the first time and not rely on retakes and those with a 78% or close to 80 will be less likely to retake.

I know that is only a small piece and the issue is large classes, no subs, no free time, demanding parents and more, but that retake policy seems insane to me.[/quote]

Yes, it made it worse for teachers. In one of my honors classes, students are retaking tests because they got a 94% (and even contemplating it at 97%) to attempt ensure their grade has enough padding to overcome a low test score.

About half of my retakes all year scored higher than the original, half scored lower. That's a lot of extra time that I'm spending grading retakes that may or may not help student's grades. [/quote]50% scoring higher is wonderful though![/quote]

DP. I don’t read it that way. The other half scored lower, which suggests the retake policy doesn’t have a great success rate. How many students are just doing retakes without bothering to learn the material? That’s a TON of extra work placed on already overworked teachers, and it doesn’t seem to have a great success rate for all of that effort. [/quote]

+1 to all of this. I fully support the idea behind the retake policy— I want my students to understand the material and have an additional opportunity to show understanding, BUT our class sizes and course load make the retake policy unsustainable for teachers. All of the professional literature on retakes discusses how teachers should be working with students to re-teach the concepts they didn’t understand. I would love to do that, and “back in the day” I would actually get to do that sometimes when I’d give a quiz on material and would pull small groups based on what they showed they didn’t understand. In theory, that’s what we are supposed to be doing during the intervention/study hall block, but now I spend that block giving retakes to the masses. [/quote]what school are you at? Our school gives retakes after school in a ‘testing center’.  So, the teacher doesn’t even have to be there. Plus, each subject generally only has 2 unit tests over 9 weeks, so retakes are not always going on. [/quote]

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