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[quote=Anonymous]Some of their arguments about only summatives for instance are that summatives grade skills more accurately but I'm sure AI could argue the exact opposite that one day of skill testing just like an SOL does not assess skills any more regularly than skills assessed throughout the year and of course having the same skill assessed all year long and even grades from the past changing relative to the skill rather than the skills changing from unit to unit also speaks to how one specific test doesn't test a skill well. Their logic makes little sense. The old grading system already compensated for lower skill levels with practice work and quizzes by weighing them less. Homework and classwork used to be 10% and quizzes 20% and summatives 70% and so accuracy of skill achievement was relative to the weight of the assessment towards the final grade. Now only summatives count but skills are assessed the same all year. There is no logic in the idea that this is a more accurate system. Kids are deciding not to attend school all over because the only time they are graded is on the summative so why go the other days unless you enjoy your classes? Kids aren't studying for tests because they aren't motivated to do any work before the summatives and then are too far behind to study well for them. Teachers are getting an earful for grading turned in late because now summatives are incredibly important to track towards GPA and they are difficult to track with so many skills and replacement grades. If you don't know a skill now you get a zero even if you attempt it in a summative which brings down your grade tremendously. Before that section would be factored into a grade for the entire test. Now it's a separate skill you could continually do poorly on throughout the year. The zeros may be going away. The rest, I'm fearful is staying.
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