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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS elementary grades are not based on percentages. Even when we were on an O,G,S, N scale the grades were not percentage based.[/quote]

I agree the grades are not based on percentages. However, it's hard to understand how a child that receives 100% on the test of the subject matter doesn't get a 4. If its about mastery, isn't getting every question on the test correct mastery?[/quote]

While this can be true sometimes, such as in areas that we don't often revisit after assessing until we review for SOLs. However, in areas that continue to be regularly revisited (such as regrouping in addition and subtraction), students could get 100% on a test but then demonstrate a week later in classwork or homework that they haven't mastered the concept. In such a case, I definitely would not give them a 4 for "computes with accuracy." Likewise, it's very hard to give a 1 in the new standards based system. You can almost always argue that a student "sometimes" demontrates a certain quality or understanding of a concept. It was much easier to give an N, since that simply means the child "needs to improve" in an area. [/quote]

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