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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To MS and HS teachers, are most students taking advantage of summative retakes? My child hates to ask and redo, but is learning how important it is to redo a summative so grades stay up. What do you tell your students regarding when they should do a retake and how to ask? [/quote]MS teacher - on average I get 2-5 kids who want to opt for a retake after every summative. Sometimes even less. One time I made everyone do the retake all together which was just revising their essays, and one student who scored the lowest just refused to do it - and I wasn’t going to force her. I don’t go out of my way to encourage retakes but I always remind them of the option, and leave a note in SIS as well so parents can see. I’m also really not strict about the 2-week cutoff, and yet still the numbers are low.

What’s interesting is the kids who need the retakes more are usually kids who are happy with anything above a 50%, and would rather not put in the effort to raise their C-. The vast majority of kids that hound me about retakes are looking to raise an A- to an A. I don’t really mind these retakes but they do feel like unnecessary busywork for both me and the student if it doesn’t even change their letter grade.

Only twice have I had students significantly turn around their grade with a retake - and I make mine really easy, like, “let’s look at exactly what you got points off for and fix that together now” easy. [/quote]

My DD has turned around AP Physics C with retakes  but has not budged with AP Calc BC [/quote]

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