Originally Posted by Tallulah
Originally Posted by Quantum2003
Our middle school uses the traditional 90-80-70-60 as the cut for A-B-C-D. I do think that grade inflation is definitely an issue but at the same time many assessments (other than unit tests) and daily classwork tend to be less than 10 points so to achieve 90% average means that you often need to earn all the points (4/4, 5/5, 6/6, ...).

Another reason why frequent assessment sucks.

This drives my ds crazy.. especially on LA and Spanish. Tons of small quiz with 5 answers.

Another thought: How would you grade a 6th grade Students taking an High School Honors Algebra class. Some schools have Honors classes weighted anyway.

Last edited by mecreature; 03/02/15 07:54 AM.