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The age-old homeschool question, to grade or not to grade? While in the early learning years mastering material is the key goal before moving to new material it is a different situation when your student is in their high school years. If your student plans on attending college it will be mandatory for the potential school to see transcripts of what your student has accomplished and how well they did in all of their subjects. Even if your student isn’t planning on education beyond secondary school most states do require a certain amount of credits and subjects in order for your student to graduate.
It’s completely up to you as the parent how you decide to grade your students’ proficiency. Here are some ideas to help you get started.
This is normally how some classes work in college. They use homework assignments for the student’s learning process but do not grade it. With this grading method, it is important to make sure your teen knows how to review the information before tests and also how to stay on schedule with projects.
If your child participates in a co-op or group class this method would allow you to also grade based on how much they participated and even how their attitude was with the learning process.
Using this method you might grade tests and projects 75%, daily assignments 15% and participation/attitude 10%. (adjusting percentages of course to your preference)
In education, a rubric refers to “a scoring guide used to evaluate the quality of students’ constructed responses”. Rubrics usually contain evaluative criteria, quality definitions for those criteria at particular levels of achievement, and a scoring strategy. ( Wikipedia)
HSLDA has some great resources about how to use a rubric in your homeschool- The Rubric: A Tool that Could Transform Your Homeschool
When your child becomes a high school student it is much more important to evaluate their retention and understanding of their courses more objectively. College admissions officers need this information so they can make accurate assessments of your teen’s ability and potential. Here are a few examples of grading scales to use with your high school student-
July 20, 2019
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