And if a teacher enters less than 50% for a student’s score, the computer automatically changes it to 50%.
I might go for a 50% floor if the student makes an attempt. Not for doing nothing, though.
> I might go for a 50% floor if the student makes an attempt. <
I guess that’s another way of saying be sure to give partial credit. And that’s a fair point. I know teachers who refused to give partial credit. You either got the right answer, or you didn’t. Maybe that’s defendable in college. But not in high school.
I taught physics for most of my career, and I loved giving partial credit. A student could get every problem wrong on a test, and still easily pass as long he was on the right track.
However, that’s not what our school board was saying. If a kid shows up and puts his name on the paper, that’s 50%.