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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't believe there weren't standards for grading before. AP classes and IB classes must have recommendations on number and type of assignments and quizzes and tests. Same for previous FCPS classes. How is the new grading compared to these existing systems?[/quote]

As an AP teacher, no, there is no recommendation. I am a part of several online communities of AP teachers for my subject and the variation in assessment is wild. Some give one quiz/one test per unit. Some never quiz. Some to group quizzes or open note quizzes. Some give a midterm and final. Some do neither. Some assign graded homework, some treat it like a college course where only assessments count.

I am the only teacher at my school who teaches my AP course, so the freedom was both awesome and terrifying the first couple years. Even when I went to AP training and asked about grading, the instructor shrugged and said I could do what I want. Colleagues in class talked about curving methodologies, how to source questions, and we were all over the board. There is no standardization.

The list of topics to be covered is set, but even then a good chunk of teachers say they never made it to the last unit (schools that start in September are at a major disadvantage when the test is early May)

So no, this doesn’t go against AP. (Not saying it’s good/bad, just that it’s not a reason to argue against it)[/quote]

I am an IB teacher, obviously not at Madison but following anyway, and this had been my exact experience for my IB course.  [/quote]
Interesting I thought IB had more structure..sometimes too much of it/lack of flexibility. [/quote]

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