From: Judith Astary <judyastary@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: The inherent unfairness of the log- a different take. Dear Etniers, Those of you who have had the privilege of undergoing a sadna with Judie Segal, the national Bagrut Lit. counsellor, will realize how, if done according to the Handbook instructions, the LOG can provide can objective assessment tool. 80% of the grade for each unit is supposed to be comprised of the Summative Assessment and ONE piece of work (I make it either the Bridging or the Post Reading depending on the genre). Both of these are supposed to be done in class, graded and handed back WITHOUT allowing the student to improve on his/her grade! The remaining 20% is comprised of work done in class or at home such as: pre-reading, basic understanding, analysis, vocab exercises etc - for which no grade need be given, but if a grade is warranted, it becomes part of the term/semester assessment grade (in our case: mashov) and is not included in the LOG. If a student wishes to improve his/her work, I am all for it. Please do not misunderstand me on this. However, the improvement part may only be carried out on components NOT included in the "two-per-unit" 80% LOG grades. Not one of my students in this year's Yud Beth got more than 95% on the LOG. A number got less than 60%. Several actually failed! The average was about 75% which is commensurate with (or slightly lower) than the average Bagrut F test! Judith Astary ************************************** ** Join ETNI on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/31737970668/ ** ETNI Blog and Poll http://ask-etni.blogspot.co.il/ ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org ** post to ETNI List - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** help - ask@xxxxxxxx ***************************************