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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please explain what a rolling gradebook means.[/quote]

A rolling gradebook is 1 year long gradebook. I just keep adding to the same spreadsheet all year. Quarter grades are just progress reports. There is no averaging at the end (unless you have a separate weighted final exam).

Proponents like that it is fairer in that every test is equally weighted (vs. a quarter that might have 1 or 2 or 3 tests, making them worth different percents), and better for the kids because there are no surprises at the end. They know exactly what they have going into the final exam.  It is easier for teachers in that we can give exams the last week of the quarter and not worry about squeezing in retakes before the gradebook closes, as I can edit the Q1 test score in Q2 (or even in June) since it's all one sheet.

Critics don't like that it because a child who does poorly at the beginning of the year has to look at those poor grades all year--they don't "disappear" in a Q1 gradebook that they can forget about. They don't like that in June a 10 point assignment doesn't change the overall grade more than 0.1% because there are 1000 points in the gradebook by this time.[/quote]That is a long time to keep just averaging tests together. There’s no clean slate at the end of a quarter or end of a semester.  Even college clears out the grades at the end of a semester and students get a fresh start in January. [/quote]

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