New Grading System: Half Right or Completely Wrong? (Trees And Things)

pO157: Re: New Grading System: Half Right or Completely W

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:26:54 EST

A fair number of universities also have something called "Academic Bankruptcy" where all of your old grades are voided (although they still appear on your record) and you start over with

Looper: Re: New Grading System: Half Right or Completely W

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:51:41 EST

Surely the intent of this program could be better met by another marking approach?

This scheme is wide open for abuse, and really disincentivizes showing up for the last quarter, as noted by a previous poster.

If the goal is to allow st

skeptic: the chance to succeed

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:44:09 EST

In my opinion, there is another way to give students a chance to succeed, other than to award them a higher grade than they have actually earned. They can take that class again, or if necessary, they could take an entire school year again. That

port1080: Re: mmm this sorta makes sense

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:28:05 EST

The true solution of course is to do away with the numbers (which is what is provoking the shenanigans in the first place) and utilize letter grade averaging instead i.e. an F is an F regardless of how 'F' it is.

I tend to agree with you. I

wetkarma: Re: no, I don't understand

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:39:44 EST

Why are people making arguments based on statistics when the reason passing grades are at least 60% is to facilitate learning competent skills and gaining useful amounts of knowledge?

Indeed I agree with you that the purpose is to facilitate

delete me: no, I don't understand

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:31:24 EST

Why are people making arguments based on statistics when the reason passing grades are at least 60% is to facilitate learning competent skills and gaining useful amounts of knowledge?

wetkarma: mmm this sorta makes sense

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:57:57 EST

A minimum 50% policy makes some sense to me. Here's why:

Say you have a multiple choice exam of 100 questions - you have an error bandwith around 10 points (sometimes less) to get an A (90-100). Very similar for B, C, and D.

However for failur

pO157: Modified From the Q.

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:58:26 EST

They have this here. It leads to kids getting 70%s or whatever for 3 quarters. For the fourth quarter they never show up to school since 70, 70, 70, 50 / 4 = 65% and that is the minimum passing grade. Instead they enroll in "Life experiences Internship 101