Administrator's Plus Report Cards Manual - Rediker Software, Inc.

Statistical Reports
Honor Rolls
Course #300, being a full year course, will have its weight divided by the number of
marking periods, or four. Its pro-rated weight will be .25.
In other words, all of these courses will be weighted the same, just as if you did not use
weight, which would have given each course a weight of 1.
The question naturally arises as to why a pro-rated weight should ever be used. To the
above example, add course #400, which is also a full year course. However, because this
course is a vocational course meeting three periods each day, it is given a weight of 3.00:
COURSE QTR PERIODS/WEEK WT PRO-RATED WEIGHT
100 1st 5 .25 .25
200 1 & 2 5 .50 .25
300 ALL 5 1.00 .25
400 ALL 15 3.00 .75
Its pro-weighted weight would be 3 divided by 4 marking periods which is .75.
Consequently, this course would be given three times the weight of the other three
courses, which each had a pro-rated weight of .25. This would be the fairest way to count
the courses. In other words, by pro-rating weights, the course that meets three times each
day is weighted three times more than courses meeting only once each day.
If you enter an N for setting #3 and choose to use the weight NOT pro-rated, the actual
weights will be used. In other words, in this example, even though the full year course
#300 met the same number of times per week as the quarter course #100 during the
marking period, its grade would count four times the grade of the quarter course.
(Course #300 is weighted 1, while course #100 is weighted .25.)
If you are printing an honor roll for the FINAL GRADE column on the report card, prorating
will automatically be turned off. (Pro-rating is done only for grades in PERIOD
and SEMESTER columns.) This is because the entered weights indicate the relative
number of times that each course has met over the entire year.
HOW TO USE THE GPA FACTOR
You have three choices:
• DO NOT USE THE GPA FACTOR
• USE FOR AVERAGES ONLY
• USE FOR AVERAGES & MINIMUM GRADE CHECKS
The GPA factor is used to give extra quality points to grades earned in higher level
courses. A GPA factor may be entered for each course through the Enter Courses
program. See “GPA Factor” on page 2-8. A specification in the Customize RC program
determines whether the GPA factor is added to or multiplied by the quality points for the
grade. See “GPA Factor” on page 1-4.
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