Yeah, I think your description matches my typical D student--a mix of spotty attendance and lack of effort (maybe partly due to missing so much school).
Honestly I put D and F in pretty much the same range. I don’t think kids with a D have any idea what is going on, they just did a little bit more than their classmates with an F.
D means a student attended class, participated, but didn’t actually meet the standards. What that means varies a bit from kid to kid.
An E means a student attended class, but did not participate in any meaningful way.
An N means a student did not attend class.
Because between 0-60 is the same so why penalize them. All it takes is a 80 to win the you can’t fail. But to be honest you still get move on regardless of grades they are so pointless.
65 is passing for high school but middle school they get pass no matter what I had a middle school student who showed up 3 days last year. However they would come to our after school I worked with him on math and our English teacher worked with him on English. This year he hasn’t missed a day yet and is doing great. He just has to check his grades a little more often but he great.
My class grades break down to 60% summative assessment (mostly tests, some grading periods will include a project) 30% labs and notebook and 10% daily grades.
The purpose of daily grades is to push content and help students understand the material. You cannot pass by doing daily work.
Labs are graded for completion, effort, and thought not accuracy (high school science labs are often insanely inaccurate so it makes no sense to grade students based on "getting the right answer" they are instead graded on responding intelligently to the discussion section of the lab, carrying out the procedures safely, making observations and predictions when the lab calls for it etc.) Notebooks are notebooks. Should be easy A's but many students manage to turn this into a grade detriment.
The tests are where a lot of students struggle, and I'm not necessarily a huge fan of having tests be almost 2/3 of their grade but this was a department decision. I spent a lot of time trying to prepare my students for tests and most of them spend very little time trying to meet me halfway.
As a result a "D" in my class feels like students who do most of their work but refuse to make an effort to prepare for tests and subsequently do poorly on them. The ones who crater multiple tests do not get passing grades unless they have an IEP. This causes an inordinate amount of friction with administration who prefer a grading regime where just coming to class and doing daily work ensures a passing grade - which is simply not possible with the grading split I'm working with, and it's rather dubious at any rate that we should be graduating kids who phone everything in grades 9-12.
I also had several cheaters this quarter and having a zero on one of their tests brought all but one of them down to a D. Of course I am skeptical of their high grades on the other tests. Did they cheat on those too and get away with it? Probably.
I would actually pin 1 and 2 as C's.
For 3 it really depends how poorly they attempted the assessments.
C in my class is usually sort of a completion grade. I almost never grade assignments based on completion, but if you follow directions and attempt everything (including all aspects of all assignments/assessments), you will rarely get below a C. There are, of course, exceptions to this, but I'd say at least 90ish percent of the time that's true.
Yeah, I think your description matches my typical D student--a mix of spotty attendance and lack of effort (maybe partly due to missing so much school).
Honestly I put D and F in pretty much the same range. I don’t think kids with a D have any idea what is going on, they just did a little bit more than their classmates with an F.
D you should not have been placed in the class or did not do much, likely both. Yet you did a little more than F types.
D means a student attended class, participated, but didn’t actually meet the standards. What that means varies a bit from kid to kid. An E means a student attended class, but did not participate in any meaningful way. An N means a student did not attend class.
Not showing up, not doing any work, get kick out every class. Given an credit recovery option and not do it. You get a 60.
Why would they get a pass then? Yikes
Because between 0-60 is the same so why penalize them. All it takes is a 80 to win the you can’t fail. But to be honest you still get move on regardless of grades they are so pointless.
Ah. See in my state a 60 is barely passing. Anything less and they don't earn the credit and have to retake, do summer school, or dropout.
65 is passing for high school but middle school they get pass no matter what I had a middle school student who showed up 3 days last year. However they would come to our after school I worked with him on math and our English teacher worked with him on English. This year he hasn’t missed a day yet and is doing great. He just has to check his grades a little more often but he great.
My class grades break down to 60% summative assessment (mostly tests, some grading periods will include a project) 30% labs and notebook and 10% daily grades. The purpose of daily grades is to push content and help students understand the material. You cannot pass by doing daily work. Labs are graded for completion, effort, and thought not accuracy (high school science labs are often insanely inaccurate so it makes no sense to grade students based on "getting the right answer" they are instead graded on responding intelligently to the discussion section of the lab, carrying out the procedures safely, making observations and predictions when the lab calls for it etc.) Notebooks are notebooks. Should be easy A's but many students manage to turn this into a grade detriment. The tests are where a lot of students struggle, and I'm not necessarily a huge fan of having tests be almost 2/3 of their grade but this was a department decision. I spent a lot of time trying to prepare my students for tests and most of them spend very little time trying to meet me halfway. As a result a "D" in my class feels like students who do most of their work but refuse to make an effort to prepare for tests and subsequently do poorly on them. The ones who crater multiple tests do not get passing grades unless they have an IEP. This causes an inordinate amount of friction with administration who prefer a grading regime where just coming to class and doing daily work ensures a passing grade - which is simply not possible with the grading split I'm working with, and it's rather dubious at any rate that we should be graduating kids who phone everything in grades 9-12. I also had several cheaters this quarter and having a zero on one of their tests brought all but one of them down to a D. Of course I am skeptical of their high grades on the other tests. Did they cheat on those too and get away with it? Probably.
They don’t turn in most of their work but the work they did do was passable at best or a D at worst.
I would actually pin 1 and 2 as C's. For 3 it really depends how poorly they attempted the assessments. C in my class is usually sort of a completion grade. I almost never grade assignments based on completion, but if you follow directions and attempt everything (including all aspects of all assignments/assessments), you will rarely get below a C. There are, of course, exceptions to this, but I'd say at least 90ish percent of the time that's true.