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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a HS teacher and I don't allow retakes nor does my department as a general policy. We are measuring mastery. If you know exactly what you got wrong and then retake a test that artificially inflates your grade based on that, that's not mastery.

I also get really annoyed with kids who receive an assignment back with points marked off and want to make corrections to resubmit. No. I am assessing what you KNOW and can show me you know. Kids really really seem to struggle with the notion that they may need to work to improve. I am not trying to see that you can redo an assignment after specifically being told what you did wrong.[/quote]

IF the point is mastery..why not let the second test show that.  Or is the only important thing mastery on Monday rather than Friday?    [/quote]

Honey, read again. If you've seen what the test is assessing and now have seen what you didn't show and then you go brush up on that stuff real quick go inflate your grade on a retake, you aren't showing MASTERY. You've only shown me you can fix errors, which anyone can do. [/quote]

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