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

Chapter 8
Statistical Reports
How Career GPAs & Credits Are Calculated
Because this is an honors chemistry course, the GPA factor has been entered as 5.00.
Because there is a GPA factor of 5, for both the midyear and final grades, 5 points are
added to the simple quality points to get the adjusted quality points. To obtain the simple
and adjusted quality points for the grade, the weight of .50 is multiplied by the simple
and adjusted quality points. For example, .50 is multiplied by the simple quality points
of 93 to obtain 46.50 simple quality points for the midyear grade. 0.50 is then multiplied
by the adjusted quality points of 98 to obtain 49 adjusted quality points for the midyear
grade.
A similar calculation is performed to the final grade of 90. Adding 5 quality points
produces an adjusted quality point total of 95. Multiplying this by the weight of 0.50
produces 47.50 adjusted quality points for the final grade compared with 45 simple
quality points.
Course #5
As with the previous two courses, because this is a full year course, the student receives
half the possible credit for passing each semester and half of the possible weight for each
semester. Therefore, the student receives full credit for passing this course and full
weight is used during the end of the year update.
In this course the student obtained a midyear grade of F that was below the minimum
grade. Consequently, the grade was raised to the minimum grade of 50, which is worth
50 simple quality points. Because there is no GPA factor, the adjusted quality points
equals the simple quality points.
Note that this is the only course with a code entered into the OVR column. Because the
code was a 2, the second line displays that this course is worth HALF CREDIT & HALF
GPA.
Since the course is a full year course, the possible weight of 1.00 is cut in half for each
semester. This is then cut in half because the OVR column code says to only count this
grade half of what it normally will count towards the student's GPA. Consequently, the
weight for this grade is .25. The weight of 0.5 times the simple and adjusted quality
points of 0 produces 0 simple and adjusted quality points for the midyear grade.
If the grade was a passing grade, the credits would have been cut in half like the weight.
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