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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate this new policy. A cap of 90% would be much better. This is going to be more work for teachers as kids who gets A minuses now and call it a day will try to retest each time to get the max points. It will add stress to those kids too by trying to be perfectionist about it.  [/quote]

I teach at a school that already has the 100% retake policy. Some teachers have 2/3 or more of their students retaking, with the corresponding increase in grading workload. The other side effect is that between that and the 50% quarterly minimum, overall grades are much higher and mean a lot less than they used to.[/quote]

How does the grade mean less if that is the grade they got? They retook a different test after remediation and with time better understood the material. That is an earned grade. Way more earned than a curve, which ALL AP classes do. [/quote]

I think that's true if the retake was a one off, meaning for instance that a student who generally gets B's got a D and is retaking. One thing I've observed is that a good number of students who do systematic retakes still do worse on cumulative exams like midterms and finals. I have one recent example that stands out in my mind of a student who usually got D's and F's, then would study like crazy, do corrections, go over their last test and corrections right before the retake, and get high B's or even A-'s. Kudos for persistence and effort. The problem is that the grade on the final was an F. Final grade in the class was something like a B-. Did the student master the material at the B- level? Likely not. That matters for classes in which you expect the grade to reflect preparedness for the next level up.[/quote]

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