The Gradebook


First things first.  Everything I discuss here is specific to EasyGrade Pro 4.0.  Why?  That is what our district is standardized on.  I am sure that everything can be modified to any gradebook, however.

First thing, set up the categories we will be using to grade with.

grade book setup 1

Notice that only 15 percent of the grade is due to any assignments, and it is not labeled as “homework”.  We are committed to trying to get the freshmen to work 100% of the time in class so we don’t have to assign homework.

Not sure how that is going to work out, yet.  The “Panther Math” category is a required element of our school.  Every learner does a Math Proficiency practice of some sort every day until they pass the proficiency exam.  This begins the first day of class as freshmen.  It has been showing results so far.

Notice that 70% of the grade is tests!!!  The Comprehensive exam is to make sure they are ready for our district’s CRT.  They will get 3 comprehensive exams, 1/3 of the way through, 2/3 of the way through the semester, and then the Final CRT.

Next, the way of inputting into the gradebook.

grade book setup 2 Notice the “Complete” and “Not Complete” names.  Those are how we decided to communicate the success of the learners.

 

 

So, here we have 7 fake learners.  When they demonstrate mastery on the “A” exam, they get a “COM” or complete worth 100% of the points.

gradebook w gradesThe learner does not get a score in a “B” test until they passed or “Completed” the “A” exam.  Notice that Frank is doing well.  He completed objective 1, but he scored 0 out of 4 on the “B” for objective 2.

John, on the other hand, is doing poorly.  He is not even close to mastery, and his grade reflects that.  Jean has mastered 1 objective, so her grade is higher.  Shelly has mastered none, but she is trying and because of the trying has a solid C.

This system gets past the point values to the importance of COMpletion and MASTERY.  For the teacher, COM’s are good, points are indicative of remediation.  I think this will alleviate the problems H had (see her posting here.)

Okay, ladies and gentlemen.  If you have any thoughts, criticisms, suggestions, lay them on me.  We go live with this with 4 Freshman Algebra 1 teachers, at least sixteen sections of this, starting in August.

More on this will follow.

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