[etni] Fw: re: discrepancies between school and exam grades
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- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:54:43 +0200
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From: Judy Givati - jesg50@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Fw: re: discrepancies between school and exam grades
Laurie and all,
The problem is that WE ALL know and understand this but the ministry - THEM
AGAIN- doesn't get it.....
They refuse to accept that the factors affecting the yearly grade do not
impact the Bagrut test itself.....They want us to teach English but force us
to stress number juggling instead!!!!! jesg
Laurie wrote:
>The topic of discrepancies between the school grade and Bagrut exam grade
>comes up time and time again. I find large discrepancies on a regular basis
>due to the "formula" we use to calculate our grades , taking into account
>book report files, literature and projects. (NBA Handbook) The grades for
>these are often the reason for the large gaps between our grade and the
>exam grade and they can go either way; if a pupil did a great project or
>literary file, etc., that pupil's grade might be a lot higher than his
>actual exam grade (internal or external) And the opposite is true, too.
>We almost all have pupils who don't hand in projects or book reports, etc.
>This is not new. And so when I looked at the Bagrut results today I found
>the gaps I'd expected.
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