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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS teacher here again. No student of mine gets a 4 unless they are above grade level and consistently scoring 90% or more on every piece of work. [/quote]

From my experience, the numbers on the report cards are just whatever that particular teacher feels like. Saw students who were consistently scoring above 90%, who were well above grade level, with teachers who explicitly said they were well above grade level, still get 3's.

I'm not sure why D.C. makes the grading so opaque and arbitrary, to the point where report cards are almost entirely meaningless. At least they're including test scores on them now, so it's not 100% whatever the teacher felt like that day (now it's 97% whatever the teacher felt like).[/quote]

I’ve always thought DCPS elementary grading was bizarre. Among other problems, they clearly start the kid’s artificially low to show progress over the year. I had to explain this to one confused and upset mom who had transferred her 4th grader from another state and was freaked because she thought her kid was suddenly failing.

In elementary anyway, they also don’t tend to give many objectively graded assignments (or even any sort of credit for doing homework). All of the energy for assessment is dedicated to IReady, PARCC, and all the other random ones. Then, as far as I can tell, the teachers have little appetite to do their own assessments (quizzes, tests, marking HW) that should be the basis for a grading rubric[/quote]

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