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

Statistical Reports
How Career GPAs & Credits Are Calculated
The computer will look for a grade in an earlier column designated as a semester
column. If it finds one, it will look for any additional grades after it in columns other
than exam columns. If it does NOT find any additional grades, it will permanently copy
the earlier semester grade to the final grade column and use it in awarding credits,
quality points and weight. This earlier semester grade will now appear on report cards
as BOTH the semester grade and the final grade. Note that a W or I after this semester
grade will cause the semester grade NOT to be copied to the final grade column.
BRIEF EXAMPLE OF A COMPLETE UPDATING
The following is a worksheet for a complete updating in a school using letter grades.
This school has the final grade column as its only column worth credit. The following
worksheet shows a student's final grades and how they are used to calculate the adjusted
quality points and adjusted GPA.:
SUBJECT GRADE = QUAL + GPA
Fact
= ADJ
QUAL
x WEIGHT = ADJ
QUAL
Math A = 4.00 + 0 = 4.00 x 1.00 = 4.00
English F = 0.00 + 0 = 0.00 x 1.00 = 0.00
AP History B = 3.00 + 1 = 4.00 x 1.00 = 4.00
Art
Spanish
Blank
P
GYM C = 2.00 + 0 = 2.00 x 0.50 = 1.00
Grand Totals 3.50 9.00
NOTE:
The OVR column was blank for each course so it did not affect the above table.
Because there is only one credit column, this student will be awarded the full entered
credit for the four courses with passing grades. These courses are MATH, AP
HISTORY, SPANISH, and GYM.
The QUAL column shows the awarded quality points based on the default letter grade
quality point table. ART is skipped because there is no final grade and SPANISH is
skipped due to the grade of P.
In the example, the school uses the option to ADD the GPA factor to the number of
awarded quality points. Only one course, AP HISTORY, has a GPA factor other than 0.
For this course, the GPA factor of 1 is added to the awarded quality points of 3.00 to
produce and Adjusted Quality Point total of 4.00. For the other courses, the adjusted
quality points equal the awarded quality points.
Normally GPA factors are used in accelerated courses so that students are not penalized for
taking harder courses in which their grades are likely to be lower. In the above example, the
student's B in AP History earned him as many adjusted quality points as the A in math.
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