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

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How Career GPAs & Credits Are Calculated
Each grade is then given a certain number of quality points based on either the letter
grade or number grade quality point tables. These tables may be customized through the
Customize RC program. If you do not touch these tables, the default quality points for
number grades is the value of the grade itself. In other words, a grade of 95 will be
awarded 95 quality points.
The default quality points for letter grades are:
A+: 4.33 B+: 3.33 C+: 2.33 D+: 1.33 F+: 0.00
A: 4.00 B: 3.00 C: 2.00 D: 1.00 F: 0.00
A-: 3.67 B-: 2.67 C-: 1.67 D-: 0.67 F-: 0.00
A grade of WF is always awarded 0 quality points.
For schools using number grades, any grade below the minimum grade as well as grades
of F and WF will be awarded the number of quality points that would be awarded for the
minimum grade. The Customize RC program is used to enter a minimum grade. The
original default is 50. For example, if a student receives a 35, using the default number
grade quality point table, the student will be awarded 50 quality points.
To calculate the adjusted quality points, the awarded quality points will be adjusted by
either multiplying the GPA FACTOR times the awarded quality points or adding the
GPA FACTOR to the awarded quality points. A setting in the Customize RC program
determines whether multiplication or addition takes place.
If a negative GPA factor brings the quality point total below 0, the adjusted quality
points for the course will be raised to 0. In other words, a student will never receive a
negative amount of quality points for a course.
Any grade with zero quality points from the quality point table will NOT use the GPA
factor. In other words, assume that a student receives an F in an honors course. The
course has a GPA factor of +1 and the quality point table shows that this F is worth zero
quality points. Because the GPA factor is not used, the student will still end up with zero
quality points for this course.
In the numeric grading system without the minimum grade, the F will similarly always
be worth zero quality points.
Once the weight is calculated, the awarded adjusted and simple quality points will be
multiplied by the weight. These products will then be added to the student's career total
simple and adjusted quality points.
Weight will be awarded following similar rules as to the awarding of credits.
In a complete updating, if you only have one credit column, the student will be awarded
full weight for a passing grade in that column for each course.
In a complete updating, if there is more than one credit column, the following will take
place for each course:
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