In 2016-17 CPS ninth-grade math sections, 98 percent of teachers altered or created grading category titles rather than using Gradebook's defaults, producing 709 unique category titles¶

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q2 i? Only about 2 percent of ninth-grade math sections used exclusively default category titles; in 98 percent teachers altered titles or created new ones, yielding 709 unique titles across 1,804 sections. → 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 the reconstructed 2016-17 CPS Gradebook file covering 1,804 ninth-grade algebra and geometry sections. The report states "About 2 percent of the sections in this sample used exclusively default category titles" and that 709 unique titles were observed.

"Very few ninth-grade math sections used the default category titles as suggested in Gradebook. About 2 percent of the sections in this sample used exclusively default category titles"

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Related Claims¶

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