I'm disappointed that you would post such a misleading article. Any statistician would know that it makes no difference and it's not unusual that two totally different scales are used when assessing humans on the one hand, and institutions on the other. I agree that calling the assessment of the schools "grades" is misleading to parents, implying that they are similar, when, in fact, they are not. On the students' grading scale, unfortunately, all the grades from A to D are valued in a range of ten percentage points. The grade of F covers 60 percentage points. Thus when a student misses an assignment and receives a 0 this disproportionally impacts the student's grade. This is how schools have chosen to evaluate students' mastery of skills and to decide whether a student needs to repeat a class or grade level. However, the "grading" of the schools is an assessment of success in a variety of areas, so that the staff can craft a plan as to how to do things differently to improve in those areas where their scores are low. There is no mastery level, and the school isn't held back to repeat the year on the assumption that doing the same thing all over again will succeed the second time around. It would make no sense to "grade" schools on the same scale as students. Perhaps we should consider evaluating students differently instead.
I'm disappointed that you would post such a misleading article. Any statistician would know that it makes no difference and it's not unusual that two totally different scales are used when assessing humans on the one hand, and institutions on the other. I agree that calling the assessment of the schools "grades" is misleading to parents, implying that they are similar, when, in fact, they are not. On the students' grading scale, unfortunately, all the grades from A to D are valued in a range of ten percentage points. The grade of F covers 60 percentage points. Thus when a student misses an assignment and receives a 0 this disproportionally impacts the student's grade. This is how schools have chosen to evaluate students' mastery of skills and to decide whether a student needs to repeat a class or grade level. However, the "grading" of the schools is an assessment of success in a variety of areas, so that the staff can craft a plan as to how to do things differently to improve in those areas where their scores are low. There is no mastery level, and the school isn't held back to repeat the year on the assumption that doing the same thing all over again will succeed the second time around. It would make no sense to "grade" schools on the same scale as students. Perhaps we should consider evaluating students differently instead.
A school district wherein 43% of students are not reading on grade level is not a successful school district no matter what scale is used to grade it.
I’m glad he wrote, it is fact.
Pardon me. I’m glad she wrote it. Keep up the knowledge I love learning!
Why are there no grades for the charter schools? I would be very interested in how they compare.
Hi Rich,
You can find all Florida Schools here: https://www.fldoe.org/accountability/accountability-reporting/school-grades/