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

Chapter 8
Statistical Reports
How Career GPAs & Credits Are Calculated
The first line for each course shows the course number and the number of possible
credits and weight that you have entered for that course. It also shows the GPA factor
that you have entered for the course and the course length (quarter, semester or full
year). This quarter length course is not worth any credits, it has an entered weight of .25
and a GPA factor of 0.00.
The second line displays the status of the OVR column. The OVR column for this course
is blank so it will count fully towards credits and GPA.
The third line shows the student's actual final grade in the course. This course is a quarter
course that met in the first quarter. The student received a 90 in the course which was
entered both into the FIRST MARKING PERIOD column as well as into the
MIDYEAR GRADE column. For this course, the FINAL grade column is blank.
Because this is a quarter course, no further credit columns are looked at. Even if the
grade of 90 had been also entered into the FINAL grade column, the computer would
not erroneously give the student double credits, quality points and weight for the course.
The next six lines show the total credits awarded, the simple quality points, the adjusted
quality points, the weight, the course simple quality points and the course adjusted
quality. These values are based on the grade earned in the course. Because this course is
not worth any credits, the student obtained 0 credits for this grade. The simple quality
points is determined using the quality point value (assigned in the grade table) for the
grade the student earned. For this course, the student obtained a grade of 90, which,
according to the grade table, is worth 90 simple quality points. (These are the quality
points before they have been adjusted due to the GPA factor or any other factor.)
Because this course has a GPA factor of 0, the adjusted quality points equals the simple
quality points. Since this is a quarter course, it is given its full weight of .25. 100% was
entered for how quarter courses should be weighted. The course simple quality points
for this grade are determined by multiplying the weight of .25 times the quality points
of 90 which produces 22.50 course simple quality points for this grade. Because the
GPA factor is 0, the course adjusted quality points equals the course simple quality
points.
The last three lines show the running total of credits, quality points and weight for all of
the student's courses for this updating. It includes the previous, added and new values
for credit, weight, quality points as well as the simple and adjusted GPA.
Course #2
This is a quarter course. Because the computer found a blank grade in the MIDYEAR
grade column, it looked for a grade in the FINAL grade column. When that grade was
also blank, the course was skipped.
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