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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They need to do away with these online programs, or at least stop making them for grading purposes. It should be practice only. Our child’s middle school teacher punishes them in their grades for missing 1-2 problems on mathspace and often makes it a summative grade. It is stressful.[/quote]

Has your child utilized the "reattempt question" feature at the bottom of practice assignments? (It's removed for assessments, but defaults to being there on all regular assignments). Students get full credit for the question if they reattempt a question and get it correct the second or third time.

When mathspace first came out we were told we could not use it for assessments, but then covid came and it was the only tool we had so after that year many teachers continued to test with it. They now have a "testing" mode they introduced a few months ago that removes all the help videos and prompts and reattempt options.[/quote]

Of course. Do you think we are stupid? The teacher recently disabled the reattempt question feature. It’s homework but no reattempt and is graded on number correct the first time around. It’s bs.[/quote]

I'd reach out to the teacher--they may not have realized it has gone away. And if they do realize, they can clarify why they took it away.

I don't think you're stupid, I just think you are picking a fight unnecessarily.  [b]How is a graded mathspace any different from a worksheet graded for correctness? [/b]At least mathspace catches you on step 1 if you make a mistake, vs. allowing you to do the whole thing incorrectly 10 times in a row without realizing it.[/quote]

You can certainly check a worksheet for correctness when the kids are just learning the material. It should not be treated as a quiz grade though. The teacher should reteach kids in small groups based on how they do, not punish kids with bad grades for practicing but not quite getting it.[/quote]

If it's a summative, then it can be retaken once for a grade up to 90%.  Has the student asked to retake? [/quote]

Quiz grades are never summatives. They are formative and can’t be retaken.[/quote]

Sorry, I saw "assessment" and jumped to summative. Then it's in the 30% formative  category (and open notes?). If they can't get it right on the first try, that's feedback (the purpose of formative) that the student needs more work to master the topic, just like a paper quiz. [/quote]

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