State Board of Ed to vote on 10 point grading system
Published October 2, 2014
By T. Keung Hui, The News & Observer, October 2, 2014.
Wake County school leaders who’ve been pushing for the state to switch to a 10-point scale for high school grading could get their wish today.
As noted in today’s Charlotte Observer article by Andrew Dunn, the State Board of Education is scheduled to vote today on switching the state’s public high schools from a seven-point grading scale to a 10-point scale. It’s a change that the state’s biggest districts have been clamoring for to help make North Carolina students applying for college more competitive with peers in districts that already use the 10-point scale.
Cathy Moore, Wake’s deputy superintendent for school performance, said in the article that both the district staff and the school board are in favor of the change.
“I think what you want to focus on is student learning and students being ready for the next level, whatever it might be,” Moore said, noting that most colleges use the 10-point scale.
An example for the change is that a student who has a 91 in all his classes would have a 4.0 GPA on a 10-point scale but a 3.0 GPA on a seven-point scale.
If approved, it would begin with high school freshmen in the 2015-16 school year. The change would go hand-in-hand with one made by the State Board in August to reduce the academic weight of Advanced Placement and Honors courses.
Click here for the executive summary of the proposed change to the 10-point scale. Click here to view how the policy would be amended.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/10/02/4199056/nc-board-of-education-to-vote.html?sp=/99/102/
October 2, 2014 at 3:14 pm
Curt Budd says:
Seriously? If a student is a B+ student for me on the current scale(ex.given of a 91) they will be a B+ student for me on the new scale. If they perform at an A level, they will get an A. If thats NOT how you have been assessing your students, then you havent been assessing your students correctly.
The stuff this state wastes time and money on in edcuation never ceases to amaze me.
Let me guess, after the switch, we are amazingly going to have more students passing their classes now and so education is improving. C'mon guys. Let's spend time on something more productive, please??
How about redoing the secondary math MLS's or NCFE's or whatever initials we're using this year so that they are actually valid? That would be a good use of time.
