How are final grades assessed if one person finishes half the units that another student completes?
Cheryl Cheryl: good question: Grades…. the further you get in the content the higher the student’s grade. So for our first semester, to earn an A students must master half way through our unit 6. This includes taking, and mastering our final exam from last year and doing a project. Last year we finished the semester at the end of unit 5 (stoichiometry) so we set the bar for an A past that point. We have students now who are starting unit 6 and I anticipate that they will finish unit 6 and go above and beyond the “A” grade. For student to earn a B they have to have completed unit 5, done last year’s final (with mastery) and do a project. for a student to earn a C they must finish unit 5 and then master the final. So we have it scaffolded that way. Right now we are thinking of actually delineating this even more. In the future we think that we could have all students who are taking a first year course in the same classroom at the same time. At our school we only have 2 levels of first
