Department-wide Grade Book Features
All teachers will use an equalized 100 - 50 grading scale to determine student grades for assignments entered into Infinite Campus, quarter grades, semester exam grades, and final semester grades.
Grading Scale: To ensure an equalized 100-50 scale, the following percentages must be entered as the "Grading Scale" for the course in Infinite Campus:
- EQUALIZED: each letter grade within the 10-point grade range must be evenly split into thirds. For example,
A+ = 100 - 96.66 (not 100 - 98 as it has been in the past)
A = 96.65 - 93.33 (not 97 - 93 as it has been in the past)
A- = 93.32 - 90.00 (not 92 - 90 as it has been in the past) - 100 - 50: the lowest score a student can earn will be a 50. This eliminates the issues related to the traditional scale where the range of F grades was 6x greater than any other letter grade on the scale.
Grading Scale: To ensure an equalized 100-50 scale, the following percentages must be entered as the "Grading Scale" for the course in Infinite Campus:
SCORE MINIMUM %
A+ 96.66 A 93.33 A- 90 |
SCORE MINIMUM %
B+ 86.66 B 83.33 B- 80 |
SCORE MINIMUM %
C+ 76.66 C 73.33 C- 70 |
SCORE MINIMUM %
D+ 66.66 D 63.33 D- 60 F 50 |
RATIONALE: To determine a student's grade for the quarter/semester exam/semester, Infinite Campus first finds his/her overall average percentage. Since report cards use letter grades rather than percentages, teachers have to enter a "Grading Scale" to tell Infinite Campus which letter grade to report.
When teachers create a Grading Scale, the percentages they enter for each letter grade represent the LOWEST percentage a student can earn to achieve that particular grade. The percentages you see above were chosen because they represent the lowest point of each equalized grade range. Choosing a higher percentage for each grading range would penalize students by making it more difficult to earn any one letter grade.
Please note that the scale is still equalized in that each grade range is still evenly split into thirds.
When teachers create a Grading Scale, the percentages they enter for each letter grade represent the LOWEST percentage a student can earn to achieve that particular grade. The percentages you see above were chosen because they represent the lowest point of each equalized grade range. Choosing a higher percentage for each grading range would penalize students by making it more difficult to earn any one letter grade.
Please note that the scale is still equalized in that each grade range is still evenly split into thirds.
Assignment Marks: Teachers can choose to enter grades as points earned or as letter grades. Teachers who choose to use letter grades as assignment marks must use the following scale as their official "Assignment Marks" scale in Infinite Campus to determine the exact percentage a student earns per assignment:
SCORE % EARNED
A+ 98.33 A 95 A- 91.66 |
SCORE % EARNED
B+ 88.33 B 85 B- 81.66 |
SCORE % EARNED
C+ 78.33 C 75 C- 71.66 |
SCORE % EARNED
D+ 68.33 D 65 D- 61.66 F 50 |
RATIONALE: Infinite Campus is essentially a calculator. As such, it must work with numbers, not letters or marks. This is why we have to enter a percentage equivalent for each "Assignment Mark" we use. The question becomes WHICH percentage to choose. The highest in the range may over-inflate a student's average and misrepresent their skill level; the lowest might penalize them unnecessarily.
The percentages you see above were chosen because they represent the mid-point of each grade range -- it's an equalized percentage in between the highest and lowest point in the grade range.
As an example, here is how the A+ percentage is determined:
The percentages you see above were chosen because they represent the mid-point of each grade range -- it's an equalized percentage in between the highest and lowest point in the grade range.
As an example, here is how the A+ percentage is determined:
- 100 --> 90 = grade range for all A grades
- 100 --> 96.66 = grade range for A+
- 98.33 = midpoint of A+ grade range that's halfway between 100 and 96.66
Categories: teachers who truly implement Standards-Based Grading principles should continue to use the category titles of "Formative" to represent work done while students are learning and practicing skills and "Summative" to represent culminating, final projects done by students after they've been given multiple forms of teacher feedback on formative work.
Teachers who are not implementing Standards-Based Grading principles should not use "Formative" and "Summative" as category names. They should opt instead for terms such as the following:
· Homework or Daily Work (rather than "Formative")
· Major Tests/Papers/Projects (rather than "Summative")
Each teacher will have to provide a summary of grade book set up information for each course they teach next year.
Teachers who are not implementing Standards-Based Grading principles should not use "Formative" and "Summative" as category names. They should opt instead for terms such as the following:
· Homework or Daily Work (rather than "Formative")
· Major Tests/Papers/Projects (rather than "Summative")
Each teacher will have to provide a summary of grade book set up information for each course they teach next year.