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Anonymous wrote:The grading becomes completely unmanageable for core classes if you allow retakes

We’re talking about teachers who do not allow even one retake.
—MCPS teacher who allows 2-3 a marking period.

We have several teachers who are not allowing any retakes and many kids are failing the class. They give a quiz every week, with only a few questions on the test (often just two), so if you get one wrong or even partially wrong you fail and the entire test.

This is what I have noticed that is really poorly designed. If you give a quiz with four questions the only opportunities for grades are a perfect score or a C or F. I feel like graded assessments should have an opportunity for a B grade too.

Individual items don't have letter grades. Only the quarterly total gets a letter grade.

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Anonymous wrote:The grading becomes completely unmanageable for core classes if you allow retakes

We’re talking about teachers who do not allow even one retake.
—MCPS teacher who allows 2-3 a marking period.

We have several teachers who are not allowing any retakes and many kids are failing the class. They give a quiz every week, with only a few questions on the test (often just two), so if you get one wrong or even partially wrong you fail and the entire test.

This is what I have noticed that is really poorly designed. If you give a quiz with four questions the only opportunities for grades are a perfect score or a C or F. I feel like graded assessments should have an opportunity for a B grade too.

Anonymous wrote:Kids learn more when they have a chance to relearn and retake. I know that there’s a belief it leads to grade inflation but the point is for kids to learn. We’ve had a few teachers in MCPS allow it over the years but first the teachers required students to participate in a reteaching activity. I thought this was sensible.

One of my 3 kids attended a private school where they could retake to earn back 50%. It was a real motivator for him to keep at difficult concepts.

Ask yourself what’s the goal?

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Anonymous wrote:For most classes, my children have been allowed retakes on quizzes and tests, but not on assessments

What's the diff between a quiz, test, and assessment?

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Anonymous wrote:The grading becomes completely unmanageable for core classes if you allow retakes

We’re talking about teachers who do not allow even one retake.
—MCPS teacher who allows 2-3 a marking period.

We have several teachers who are not allowing any retakes and many kids are failing the class. They give a quiz every week, with only a few questions on the test (often just two), so if you get one wrong or even partially wrong you fail and the entire test.

This is what I have noticed that is really poorly designed. If you give a quiz with four questions the only opportunities for grades are a perfect score or a C or F. I feel like graded assessments should have an opportunity for a B grade too.

You can give a 4 question quiz as long as you allow partial credit and the quizzes are worth at least 8 points.

We had identifications when I was in prep school that were 3 points each if perfect, but at least 1- 2 points for an answer with some accuracy and evidence of critical thinking. You learned how to write a logical answer even if you forgot a few details. I remember earning a point for being able to explain why I knew a person was not a leader of a specific political party although I couldn’t recall what he did.

That sounds fair but this isn’t what is being done in MCPS.

This was the hardest and most frustrating part when my kid got to MS. Quizzes were 3-5 questions. It was either perfect score or failing. Which as other PPs pointed out does terrible things to kids grades because the quizzes and test are worth 90% of the grade. Kid figured it out in order to make good grades, but it does seem unfair.

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Anonymous wrote:The grading becomes completely unmanageable for core classes if you allow retakes

We’re talking about teachers who do not allow even one retake.
—MCPS teacher who allows 2-3 a marking period.

We have several teachers who are not allowing any retakes and many kids are failing the class. They give a quiz every week, with only a few questions on the test (often just two), so if you get one wrong or even partially wrong you fail and the entire test.

This is what I have noticed that is really poorly designed. If you give a quiz with four questions the only opportunities for grades are a perfect score or a C or F. I feel like graded assessments should have an opportunity for a B grade too.

You can give a 4 question quiz as long as you allow partial credit and the quizzes are worth at least 8 points.

We had identifications when I was in prep school that were 3 points each if perfect, but at least 1- 2 points for an answer with some accuracy and evidence of critical thinking. You learned how to write a logical answer even if you forgot a few details. I remember earning a point for being able to explain why I knew a person was not a leader of a specific political party although I couldn’t recall what he did.

That sounds fair but this isn’t what is being done in MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:It is a requirement to offer one per marking period. However, even as a fellow teacher, I was unable to get one particular English teacher to comply. I documented her refusal. Sent it to the department head and grade level administrator. Nothing ever happened.

Ugh you are the teacher's kid we hate to have

The one who makes you do your job?
So sorry you were inconvenienced. Go work somewhere else. No sympathy for jerk teachers who don’t follow the rules.

Apples don’t fall far from the tree. Hopefully your child didn’t inherit your attitude. I feel for your child and students with someone who is so overbearing. Please let us know the school you work at so our kids don’t have you.

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