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[quote=Anonymous]I'm no fan of skills based grading, especially the haphazard way it's been implemented at Madison, but I'm fuming right now

My child received A's on multiple "practice" drafts of a paper.  The final submission was returned today (two months after it was due, FWIW) and the teacher gave it a C.  Which will now replace all of those A's.  And the best reason we can see, based on the feedback provided?  The paper was missing one of the major elements.  Where was that comment on the three prior drafts, which were given a mastery level grade?  DC also has peer review sheets (which was part of each draft) where the reviewer states that they *saw* the supposedly missing element in the paper!  That's why DC didn't address that issue moving forward; the comments and grades implied that it didn't need fixing.

This is a teacher with a long history of not responding to emails.  My kid won't see the teacher again until Monday when grades are due.  We'll see if the email sent today gets a response, but if not I'm running this one up the chain because this teachers inability and/or unwillingness to provide feedback during the process and instead basically let the students review/teach each other should not result in my kid's grade going down when they have no opportunity to address the issue.  I'm a former professor; I know how hard it is to give timely and adequate feedback to students on papers but you just do it...that's part of the job.  How else do they learn what they're doing wrong?

I'm sure someone will flame me for this, but the venting was at least slightly cathartic so I'm ok with it.[/quote]

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