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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The end of term assessments determine the grade in a purely objective fashion.[/quote]

But that's not what's really happening. At Madison, content only counts as one "skill" and it gets replaced throughout the year which makes no sense to me. Just because a student gets an A on a test, it doesn’t mean the student understood the previous material, and it doesn’t mean the student will get an A in the future. You can say the focus is on skills, but there is also content. The content should be tested every single time for every single unit and the content grade should stay in the grade book. I don't understand how skills-based grading reflects what a student knows in science and math and "a purely objective fashion" would mean that none of the skills grades are dropped and replaced.

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This isn't correct.  There are multiple units that each have a "final" skill grade.  Your grade on Unit 1 isn't replaced by your grade on Unit 7!  You get a final grade on Unit 1 and it is calculated into the grade as the year goes along.  It's not like you can just do the last test of the year, ace it, and get an A.  Does Not Work Like That.[/quote]

It's different for every class which is part of the problem.  But for most classes, if you show an upward trend in a skill, the grade gets replaced.  [/quote]

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