Statewide uniform grading policy; requires Board of Education to establish. (HB727)
Introduced By
Del. Mark Dudenhefer (R-Stafford)
Progress
✓ |
Introduced |
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Passed Committee |
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
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Signed by Governor |
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Became Law |
Description
Board of Education; statewide uniform grading policy. Requires the Board of Education to establish a statewide uniform grading policy. Read the Bill »
Outcome
Bill Has Failed
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 01/11/2012 | Committee |
| 01/11/2012 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12100958D |
| 01/11/2012 | Referred to Committee on Education |
| 01/18/2012 | Assigned Education sub: Students and Early Education |
| 02/06/2012 | Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2013 |
| 02/08/2012 | Continued to 2013 in Education |
Comments
This bill should definitely be passed so that students applying for college will have more comparable grades. Currently, if a student in Franklin county gets a 93, it is recorded as a B while a student in another county could get a 91 and it would be an A. That is not fair for comparison purposes/ computation of GPA's.
So this bill is great. However, it needs to be tweaked to help make grade computations to be more reasonable.
For example, if a student were to get only 2 grades in a class, a 0 and a 100, what should he/she get as an overall grade? If using letters only, then he/she would get a "C". However, if using numbers 0+100 divided by 2 =50, the student would get an F. That is pretty absurd but it happens frequently. Therefore, the grading scale should not go to a 0. It should only go down as low as a 50. Therefore, in the same example the student that got a 0 and a 100 would have it calculated as 50+100= 150/2= 75 which results in the calculation of a "C" which better represents the overall work done.
This bill should definitely be passed so that students applying for college will have more comparable grades. Currently, if a student in Franklin county gets a 93, it is recorded as a B while a student in another county could get a 91 and it would be an A. That is not fair for comparison purposes/ computation of GPA's.
So this bill is great. However, it needs to be tweaked to help make grade computations to be more reasonable.
For example, if a student were to get only 2 grades in a class, a 0 and a 100, what should he/she get as an overall grade? If using letters only, then he/she would get a "C". However, if using numbers 0+100 divided by 2 =50, the student would get an F. That is pretty absurd but it happens frequently. Therefore, the grading scale should not go to a 0. It should only go down as low as a 50. Therefore, in the same example the student that got a 0 and a 100 would have it calculated as 50+100= 150/2= 75 which results in the calculation of a "C" which better represents the overall work done.