CPS ninth-grade math category families typically contained many tasks per semester—about 11 in assessments and 28 in assignments—except weekly categories, which typically contained only four tasks¶
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q2 i? On average there were about 11 tasks per semester in the assessments family and about 28 in assignments; teachers using weekly grading tended to consistently use four tasks for final semester grades. → Diaz 2021
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Diaz 2021¶
Diaz, B., & Easton, J.Q. (2021). CPS Gradebook Technical Report. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/CPS-gradebook-technical-report
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Descriptive analysis of task counts per category family (Table 4, N=86,533). The report states "There were about 28 tasks on average in the assignments category family" and that weekly schemes tended to use four tasks, so no single task played an outsized weight.
"On average, there were about 11 tasks per semester in the assessments category family—approximately one assessment task every three weeks over the course of a full semester. There were about 28 tasks on average in the assignments category family."
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Related Claims¶
- In CPS ninth-grade math sections using mastery-based or weekly grading, those categories determined nearly all of the final grade; otherwise assessments carried the highest weight, with a median of 60 percent exceeding the CPS/CTU 50 percent recommendation — related
- Sixty-five percent of CPS ninth-grade math sections used Gradebook's default Total Points Logic ON setting, aggregating task scores by total points earned over total points possible — related
- Most CPS ninth-grade math teachers used two or three grading category families, averaging 2.43 families per section — related
- CPS ninth-grade math final grade distributions show sharp peaks at 60, 70, 80, and 90 points, with students on the cusp between two grades much more likely to receive the higher grade — related
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CPS ninth-grade math category families typically contained many tasks per semester—about 11 in assessments and 28 in assignments—except weekly categories, which typically contained only four tasks |
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CPS ninth-grade math category families typically contained many tasks per semester—about 11 in assessments and 28 in assignments—except weekly categories, which typically contained only four tasks |
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