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...State Board of Education is scheduled to vote today on switching the state’s public high schools from a seven-point grading scale to a 10-point scale. It’s a change that the state’s biggest districts have been clamoring for to help make North Carolina students applying for college more competitive with peers in districts that already use the 10-point scale.
Good. Colleges grade on ten point scales. I was (pleasantly) shocked when I started college and realized I had been a straight A student all along by university standards.
I agree a 10-pt scale will help with students getting into college. And that will help for the brighter students. But I am concerned with the lower end. With the 7-pt scale, <70 is failing. But with 10-pt, it is <60. If a student only grasp 2/3 of the material, should they really pass?
Not to mention, I would assume the grading won't be modified to reflect the new grading scale.
I grew up in a district with 10 point grading and you had to get a 65 to pass. Slight difference.
This is about norming the grading policies to align with most districts. I'm sure teachers can handle how they need to grade to reflect mastery.
And even with rubrics, grading is arbitrary. I emailed my DS' teacher in a core class last week because I was genuinely perplexed over points deducted on a part of the rubric. I've never done this before. She asked him to bring the project back to school to explain the grade, and no questions asked, added 10 points. Too late for my current 8th grader but I guess there are enough squeaky wheels that the de facto setting is to undergrade when possible to allow for parental complaints. I'll have to remember this when I have a new middle schooler next year.
And even with rubrics, grading is arbitrary. I emailed my DS' teacher in a core class last week because I was genuinely perplexed over points deducted on a part of the rubric. I've never done this before. She asked him to bring the project back to school to explain the grade, and no questions asked, added 10 points. Too late for my current 8th grader but I guess there are enough squeaky wheels that the de facto setting is to undergrade when possible to allow for parental complaints. I'll have to remember this when I have a new middle schooler next year.
Interesting. Even at the same school, I've had the exact opposite experience (I think they inflate the grades on projects). I always thought they did that to balance out the fact that on some tests, if you miss one question, you already have a B.
Interesting. Even at the same school, I've had the exact opposite experience (I think they inflate the grades on projects). I always thought they did that to balance out the fact that on some tests, if you miss one question, you already have a B.
Honestly I was really POed about this grade. My child is not a good student and I felt like they were grading him on what they expected out of him. If all else failed I was going to pull the twin card, as their projects were done in essentially the same manner and their grades were vastly different. So it was even more suspicious when the grade was just changed, without me (or him) even really asking, a full 10 points higher.
Mine didn't. A large university, it used a numeric 4 point scale using quarter point increments (although individual tests and papers were graded on a tenth of a point scale). There were no letters. Maybe we need to move away from scales that have to convert into something else and just start using raw scores.
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