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cheesehead mom
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Posted: May 31 2011 at 3:19pm \| IP Logged

Do you factor in a homework grade for say math or just assign a grade strictly from test scores?

Laura (first year with 9th grader, first year having to keep track!)

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Posted: May 31 2011 at 9:55pm \| IP Logged

Yes, usually I do count daily work. A classroom teacher would generally average a combination of categories of grades: tests, homework, quizzes, class participation, even "attitude," in order to determine a final grade. I don't go over daily work with a fine-toothed comb, but I do give credit for doing it.

In a subject in which the student struggles (math for my recent graduate, for instance), I also have the student re-take a failed test until he/she achieves what we've determined is a grade we can live with, and then I only count that grade.

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Posted: June 01 2011 at 9:48am \| IP Logged

Thanks Sally. Grading is so tough. I used to be in the classroom as a teacher but also do not want to be too easy as I see some homeschoolers doing that. Thanks for sharing your method, it helps a lot.

Laura

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Posted: June 04 2011 at 3:56pm \| IP Logged

My aim is for the student to master the material to the greatest extent possible. My now-graduate and I developed the system of deciding what we both thought was an okay grade for a subject -- in many subjects, she really had no excuse for making less than an A, but others were a real struggle, and we decided that a B would be a perfectly acceptable goal to work towards (and that's what she made in the end).

The great difference that homeschooling makes is that a) the student has time to gain more real mastery over the material, instead of just flunking the test and being left behind in the class (my own math experience, incidentally); and b) a failure or less-than-wonderful grade doesn't have to be the end of the story for that student. What I think my daughter gained in using this method to attack subjects for which she didn't have much natural inclination was perseverance: not getting it once didn't mean she'd never get it. And not getting it the first time was not going to haunt her -- it was getting it that counted.

Anyway, that's been my philosophy. And yes, it is tough. I watch my college-professor husband struggle with many of the same questions at the end of every semester. I'd love a world with no grades, but alas . . .

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Posted: May 27 2013 at 2:13pm \| IP Logged

Bumping this...do you all use weighted grades?? Is it necessary? If so, how did you determine how much test scores and daily assignments should weigh? Thank you!

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