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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The logic by some of the posters here is insane. “Biology isn’t useful to some kids in life, so we should just give them a passing score with no effort.”  If we deem Biology 2 useless, then we focus on removing the requirement to take the course, not watering down passing requirements.

Let kids drop the lowest scoring assignment or two, like they do in college. On my first college Physics exam, I got a 33% for leaving the i and j off all of my numerically correct answers. I was devastated. I ended up with an A+ in the class because I was able to exclude my lowest exam score. So if the issue is that kids “can’t come back from” a zero, let them have one that doesn’t matter, not every exam. [/quote]

That is Professor dependent. I allowed students to drop their lowest exam score. I gave 2 mid terms and a final. They were equally weighted. My logic was that a student can have a bad day or struggle during the class. If they show me on the two earlier exams they know the material, there is no need for a demonstration of knowledge over the course of the semester. If they bombed a test, they had an opportunity to demonstrate that they knew the material at the final. On the plus side, I had to grade a lot less at the final exam and most of the students had something taken off their plate at a stressful time of year. I also passed out term papers in chunks forcing the work on them to spread out over the course of the year. It also allowed students to see how I was grading and allowed them to improve their product pretty quickly. Again, they were less stressed at the end of the semester because their paper was done except for cleaning it up based on my comments and I had a better product to read.

Students till failed because they skipped two tests or didn't turn in papers. You can set things so students can succeed but it is up to the student to take advantage of that. Honestly, it was rare for the student who missed the first exam without contacting me to take the second exam or the final. It was rare that the student not turning in paper bits as required turned in a final paper. I am guessing that the majority of high school students who are suppose to benefit from the 50% BS are getting Ds and Cs and that the number of students using it to honestly improve in a class are far smaller. I would not be surprised to find out that kids with Bs are using it to improve to an A but that is a smaller percentage of kids then the number of kids who would fail and not graduate without this policy.

I think this is more about artificially improving the graduation rate then trying to  help kids improve in their classes. [/quote]

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