Sentences with phrase «traditional grading scale»

The traditional grading scale is archaic with roots extending back to early education.

The following example of a traditional grading scale is what most schools in the United States rely on to evaluate student performance.

Not exact matches

In most educational programs, traditional time - based assessments provide a single quantitative grade, more often than not on some kind of «pass - fail» scale.

This is the sixth in a series of reports that grade state proficiency standards on the traditional A-to-F scale used to evaluate students.

-- the percentage of those giving the schools an «A» or a «B» on the traditional A to F grading scale drops 11 percentage points, from 49 % to 38 %; — support for a proposal to make vouchers available to all families regardless of income jumps 13 percentage points, increasing from 43 % to 56 %, while opposition to the proposal declines from 37 % to 25 %; — support for charter schools shifts upward from 51 % to 58 % when respondents learn the national rank of the local district, while opposition to charters declines from 26 % to 23 %; — opposition to teacher tenure climbs 8 percentage points, from 47 % to 55 %, while support for tenure drops 8 points to 25 %.

In days gone by, and even now in traditional schools, teachers graded students over a five - point scale that ranges from A to F. NCLB needs to rediscover that ancient practice.

New York grades schools on a four - point scale, which, if not as good as the traditional grading system, would be satisfactory were it not for the fact that, in New York, 4 is good, 1 is bad.

Survey respondents were asked to state the percentage of teachers in their local school district they think deserve one of the five grades on the traditional A-to-F scale.

Using variation in course - taking that arises both from changes in course offerings at particular campuses in a particular term and from variation across students in the distance that they have to travel to take in - person courses, we find that taking a course online reduces student grades by 0.44 points on the traditional four - point grading scale, approximately a 0.33 standard deviation decline relative to taking a course in - person (See Figure 1).

Figure 2 shows example traditional and SBG grading scales.

Quality Counts grades the states and the nation on educational performance across a range of key indicators, issuing overall A-F grades based on a traditional 100 - point scale.