In April, the Loudoun County School Board adopted an updated Policy 5030 - Assessment and Grading. This revised policy will take effect with the start of this school year.
Significant updates to the policy include:
Definitions are included for terms like “reasonable effort” and “formative” or “summative” assessments to ensure families and staff have a consistent understanding of key terms.
The floor of 50% has been changed to apply only to quarter grades, not individual assessments. The floor of 50% also no longer applies to Advanced Placement courses.
Students must submit homework and other formative assessments, demonstrating reasonable effort, before any major summative assessment may be re-administered.
The ceiling of 80% for reassessments has been lowered to 70%. Students may only take a reassessment when they have received a grade of below 70% on a major summative assessment and may earn up to a grade of 70% on the reassessment.
The policy now allows for weighting for homework and formative assessments of a total of no more than 10% of a quarter grade.
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