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

Chapter 8
Statistical Reports
How Adjusted & Simple GPA’s Are Calculated
How Adjusted & Simple GPA’s Are Calculated
The top portion of each student's report card record as viewed in the
View/Change/Add/Drop program displays the student’s Career Adjusted Quality
Points, Career Adjusted Weight, Career Adjusted GPA, Career Credits, Career Simple
Quality Points, Career Simple Weight, and Career Simple GPA.
There are two types of quality points so that you may maintain both an adjusted and
simple career GPA for each student. The adjusted GPA takes into account the fact that
some advanced courses may offer more quality points for a grade than would be
awarded for the same grade in a lower level course. The simple GPA is calculated with
the same number of quality points being offered for each grade regardless of the GPA
factor of the course. When you calculate class rank, you will have the option to use either
the adjusted or simple GPA. Similarly, when you print report cards, transcripts or
permanent labels, you will have the option to print either the adjusted or simple GPA or
both.
When a student is first entered into Administrator’s Plus, these four slots all contain
zeroes. At the end of each semester or year, the Statistical Reports program will be used
to update these figures based on students' grades for the current year in the report card
columns that you have designated as CREDIT columns. The Customize RC program is
used to designate report card columns as credit columns. See Chapter 1 page “CREDIT”
on page 1-8. Students' career adjusted grade point averages are calculated by dividing
their career adjusted quality points by their career weight. Students' career simple grade
point averages are calculated by dividing their career simple quality points by their
career weight. Once numbers exist in these slots, Class Rank Reports may be obtained
listing and/or sorting students by career grade point averages, career credits, career
adjusted quality points or career simple quality points.
At any time during a school year, students' career credits and grade point averages may
be temporarily updated based on the grades in any report card column. For example, you
may want to temporarily update your seniors’ career GPA's half-way through the year
so that you can obtain an up-to-date class rank report.At the end of the year, this
temporary updating will be automatically un-done before the final updating takes place.
At the end of the year, when the Beginning program is run to move students to the next
grade, students' career credits, simple quality points, adjusted quality points and weight
are kept in their report card files even though all of their courses and grades for the
current year are either erased or archived for use on college transcripts.
Report Cards Plus also keeps track of the values obtained during the most recent update
of GPAs/credits, including: Last Credit Update, Last Adjusted Quality Points Update,
Last Weight Update, Last Simple Quality Points Update. When student's career credits,
adjusted quality points, simple quality points and weight are updated, the current credits,
current simple quality points, current adjusted quality points and current weight are
calculated and placed into these four slots. These current figures are then added to the
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