I just wanted to let you know that: I am posting here in case you lose access to google classroom.
Apparently I should call my HW - in class work - ICW ? Nope HW is not done at home.
I should call my exam redo - NOT content recovey. So no I do not do content recovery after posting the answer key on the same exam on which you are doing content recovery.
PS: I met with Ms. Fowler this morning which is why I came to school early in the morning. Next semester, I may get rid of the Homework in class. Too much work with no appreciation of how much it helps you learn and do better in the class from students. Actually a good bit of complaining about the HW. posted 12/20/23 at 5:30 from my Dad's Irmo home
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I just wanted to let my class know that:
(a) I did use quiz VI redo to add extra credit points to your Quiz VI.
(b) I used Exam III redo to add extra credit points to Exam III [
(c) I used Exam redos to add extra credit points to the final exam
(exception: if your class average unadjusted was over 90%, I did not add any
extra credit points. One section had this enviable average grade.)
(d) I replaced lowest quiz grade with HW points
(e) I replaced lowest exam grade (from exam II and exam III from this quarter)
with the final exam (if your final exam grade is higher than your lowest exam
grade. So if you showed improvement during the quarter, you would get a grade
not locked to your earlier bad exam.
(f) I consolidated all of your individual HW points into a single minor grade
HW column. I added points to each class' maximum possible HW sum so that all
classes had 56 HW points. (most of my classes had around 40 HW individual
points so than I added points up to a total of 56 points. The 6 extra points
would be for the promised 5 drops (gave you an extra drop) in the HW grade)
(g) I removed the individual HW points from the grade by blocking those from
being included in the final grade. Because when I made up the new sum of HW
column, we briefly had double HW points affecting your grade for a few hours
until I removed the individual HW points.
(h) I went sleepless for days. Try looking at an excel spreadsheet with lots
and lots of numbers for 16 hours straight and see how you feel after that.
(while not getting enough sleep) One little typo and somebody's grade can
change from an A to an F.
(i) fortunately I did this mostly at my house (really my Dad's house) and
caffeinated myself with soda and coffee. I also find crunchy snacks (popcorn,
potato chips, etc) help keep me alert. Pepperoni also is good at keeping me
alert. I only worked on your grades when you guys were in class. I don't do
this number crunching into the wee hours of the morn in my RNE classroom. Too
creepy and uncomfortable.
(j) make sure I changed your lowest grade quiz and lowest grade exam - this
was manual not an excel auto choice change. I should also have correctly taken
care of averaged grade plug ins for excused absence quizzes.
(k) if I made a mistake, email me and tell me what you think is wrong. If I
made a mistake, I absolutely will do a grade change next semester.
You know if i don't do all of this (mostly all this extra work should result in
higher final grades based on your hard work), I would have finished grading a
week ago and would have had plenty of sleep for a week. My conclusion, I am
too nice in some cases for some who are less than nice to me. Sort of turn the
other cheek nice. I know that everyone has an internal knowledge of right and
wrong. I hope no one is too far gone to have their internal knowledge of right
and wrong - some would say a higher power voice (please note: not stating any
religious beliefs in my official position as a state employee) reach you still.
(maintaining separation of state and religion)
Also because the chemistry class refused to clean up after yourself, I cleaned
up for you. No I am not your mother. I put all the glassware (and left over
hydrochloric acid) into a tub of soapy water.
Dr. Hahn
(redo/100)*(max total EC points)]
average on final exam: Physics class - 81.2% (this average reflects ~ 5 extra
credit points maximum based on average on exam redos) Physics Honor class -
96.5%. No extra credit points for the Physics Honor class grade.
Chemistry class 77.5 % (this average reflect 6 extra credit points maximum based
on average on exam redos)
The exam redo (redoing the exams for extra credit points on the final exam.)
really helped students do better on the final exam even without any added extra
credit points. Exam redos are not the same as content recovery. Content
recovery is where the students can request a redo of an exam for full credit.
In content recovery the student's grade on the exam is the better grade earned
after the content recovery exam. My exam redos were NOT to replace the
original exam grade. They were used to decide how much extra points a student
could earn in extra credit on the final exam. Since I posted the exam answer
key and I gave the students the same exam, it would have been unreasonable to
have used "my exam redo" to replace the original exam grade.
But really my objective in giving my students the exam redo was to prepare
students for the final exam. I feel that all students who seriously did the
HW ("ICW") and "exam redo" did much better on the class as a whole and on the
final exam.
The Physics Honor class exam average has NO extra credit points added on. That
is just the raw average.
I should call "my HW" as "ICW" or "in class work". Because there are so many
of these is why I have the drop "5" of the ICW. RIchland 2 district rules are
that students are supposed to earn an F on the course if they miss "5" classes
for whatever reason. Of course if a student misses 5 classes, then students
can do "seat time" work by doing study hall or other things. This apparently
is related to some law about number of hours spent in class for the number of
credit hours earned.