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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are second quarter grades impacted by the first quarter with the rolling gradebook? Or only the final?[/quote]

Yes, they are.  [/quote]

I don’t get this. Why should a bad test in the first quarter impact your grade in the second quarter? Especially as it’s a totally different unit?[/quote]

There is only 1 grade given per course. You get a single grade for “honors biology”.

In the old system, 4 grades were averaged to get that grade. 1st quarter tests affected that final grade.
In the new system, it’s one massive “quarter”. September tests still affect the end of year grade.[/quote]

That’s absolutely ridiculous! Why should what you do in the first quarter impact all other quarters? Each quarter should be separate.[/quote]

I guess the idea is kids can recover from a bad quarter?[/quote]

Seems like yet another new idea in education that someone came up with who doesn't actually like kids.  Or people in general.[/quote]

You do understand that only the final grade is sent to colleges, right? The interim grades are as they’ve always been informative for the student, parents and teachers. Now you have to understand how to interpret  those iterim grades because they were calculated different when parents went to school. Sheesh. [/quote]

This is for middle school. Why would a middle school need a rolling grade book?[/quote]

Don't YOU want to know how you are progressing toward your final grade in the course?  Why would you want the false-optimism of a limited-time-grade?  Which do you prefer....truth or shaded-fiction?
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DP Students can tell how they're doing with a quarterly grading approach too; they just average their quarterly grades, same as they always have. Not sure that rolling gradebook conveys any better information to students on how they’re doing.

FCPS acknowledged that the primary benefit of rolling gradebook is to increase opportunities for students to show mastery and they encouraged teachers to adjust late work and retake policies to take advantage of the extra leeway rolling gradebook provides. 
[b]Thus, the main attraction of rolling gradebook seems to be that it facilitates equity grading.[/b]
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The main attraction of a rolling gradebook is it facilitates teachers not having to grade assignments in a timely manner, which they simply refuse to do. [/quote]

They are only working “ contract hours” so they won’t be grading till the ends, already two weeks behind on grading smh [/quote]

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