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Posted: Feb 25 2013 at 4:38pm | IP Logged Quote Kristie 4
Do you list this by credit hours on the transcript? Do you use an alternate system by mastering of the material etc.??

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Posted: Feb 25 2013 at 5:21pm | IP Logged Quote SallyT
Isn't the rule of thumb something like 120-150 hours in a subject = a credit? Assuming the student has shown signs of engaging with/mastering the material (and I've already told you how flaky I am about measuring that!). I tend to guesstimate, since I don't keep up with exactly how many hours are being spent on a given subject, but after 36-ish weeks of work, I award a credit, and/or after finishing whatever I'd planned for that subject, even if it takes less than a full school year, or more.

Essentially a college would want to see that each major subject=one credit. Electives can be a half-credit, if the student didn't do a full year's worth of work. I would just say, especially at this late date, that if you are listing a major subject as having been completed/passed, however you measured that, then you award one credit. They aren't going to ask how you arrived at your judgment about that credit. The typical number of credits a high-school graduate would have, at graduation, would be in the neighborhood of 21 -- you can have more, but too many more (like 30-something) would indicate that things didn't get done in enough depth. I think my last graduate had something like 27 credits, including college classes she had taken, for which I awarded a credit per semester (since that was a full college credit, I counted it as a full high-school credit).

Does that help? I'm no authority on these things, but we also tend to be kind of relaxed around here, and this is how I've coped with this particular hoop. Our first had no trouble getting into the colleges she applied to and has done well in college, so I feel fairly . . . relieved? . . . that my read of her levels of mastery was pretty accurate.

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Posted: Feb 25 2013 at 5:31pm | IP Logged Quote Kristie 4
That is how I did it Sally- I just needed some support!

In Manitoba the kids need 30 or more credits to graduate- it is kind of outrageous! He has 31.5, and I could have given him full credits for Theology etc. but ended up giving him .5 for each elective...

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Posted: Feb 25 2013 at 6:18pm | IP Logged Quote SallyT
Yes, I think if your number of credits comes out looking . . . normal, more or less . . . that's what counts.

I did have one friend remark to me, after I'd described what I thought was a pretty lightweight economics course, with some reading and some short papers, that she would give a full credit for that amount of work, and not the half-credit I was awarding. I ended up scaling back what I was asking for, so that it really was more of a half-credit course, which was good since it was second semester of senior year, and time was running short.

Usually I think I've overestimating what my children have done and what I should award them for it, but apparently it doesn't always look that way to other people.

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