<p>Hi~</p>
<p>Can you please post here your school's policy regarding how your final class grade is calculated.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<p>Tests/quizzes - account for 80% of the grade
Homework - account for 20% of the grade</p>
<p>OR</p>
<p>Tests/quizzes - 100%
Homework - 0%</p>
<p>Or some other way.</p>
<p>Can you please also state if you are from a public or private school.</p>
<p>Our district is considering changing our system and I am curious to what is the "norm" around the country.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Schools have policies for this? Ours was class by class.</p>
<p>Our district has a district wide policy. Teachers are not allowed to create their own system. Ours is a public school.</p>
<p>Our county had a policy like that as well. A class could either be 70/30 or 80/20 summative/formative, that is, major grades/homework grades (and the like). That was for a marking period grade. You had four marking period grades worth 80% of your final grade, then 20% of your final grade was calculated from your midterm and final performance (10% each).</p>
<p>At our public school, they take each nine weeks grade and count it twice. Then add in our final grade. Thus nine weeks grades are 8/9 of our grade and finals are 1/9.</p>
<p>Let’s say you went 92,95,93,97 for the four nine weeks. And you got a 91 on your final.
((92<em>2)+(95</em>2)+(93<em>2)+(97</em>2)+(91))/9…your final grade would be 93.89.</p>
<p>Our school was dependednt on the class. The teacher would decide the break down. A lot of times they even decided what % was an A, B, C, and so on. This is a public school.</p>
<p>Most teachers I had just gave a certain amount of points for each assignment, generally correlating to the amount of work or significance. Final exams tended to be designed as a set % of the grade (often 10-20, but as low as 4 and as high as 30), but other than that the breakdown was very hard to sort out. I would say that tests were the majority of the grade typically, but not overwhelmingly so. But obviously the breakdown wouldn’t be the same in say AP Chem as compared to an English class. </p>
<p>Interestingly, there were some teachers with more academic backgrounds, and they tended to have more organized grading systems. For example, my APUSH teacher had been a professor at USC before growing tired of academia, and she categorized each assignment with the final grade in each category weighted at the end. It never occurred to me that there could be a schoolwide policy, let alone a district policy, even with LAUSD’s mammoth bureaucracy.</p>
<p>an ogre is like an onion</p>
<p>First Semester:
40% First Quarter
40% Second Quarter
20% Midterm</p>
<p>Final:
37.5% First Semester
37.5% Second Semester
25% Final Exam</p>