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

Chapter 8
Statistical Reports
Defining Class Rank Reports
Specification
USE SIMPLE
OR ADJUSTED
GPA'S/QUAL
POINTS
SEARCH BY
GPA, CREDITS,
QUALITY
POINTS
SEARCH
CATEGORY
LOWER LIMIT
SEARCH
CATEGORY
UPPER LIMIT
MINIMUM
WEIGHT
Description
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 level of the course. This specification determines which of these
types of GPA will be used when you calculate class rank to either paper
or the disk. If your search category in SPECIFICATION #5 has been
set to QUALITY POINTS or GPA, this setting determines whether the
simple or adjusted quality points will be used.
This setting determines whether the report will be based upon students'
career grade point averages, credits or quality points. In-other-words,
you can rank students by credits or quality points as well as by grade
point average. Specification #5 will allow you to enter as your search
category either GPA, CREDITS or WEIGHT. If you enter GPA as your
criterion, the computer obtains the GPA for each student by dividing
their career quality points by their career weight.
The value entered in this setting, SEARCH CATEGORY LOWER
LIMIT, will keep students off of your class rank report if their search
category value is below this value. For example, if credits is your
search category, students with below this number of credits will not be
on your report. If GPA is your search category, students with GPA's
below this GPA value will not be on your report. Enter a 0 to not have
any lower limit.
Students with a value in their search category greater than what you
enter for this setting will be omitted from your class rank report.
For example, to find all students with less than 20 credits, choose
CREDITS as the search category and enter 19.99 as your upper limit.
Enter a 9999 to not have any upper limit.
Any student with a career weight less than this number will be omitted
from the class rank report. This will enable you to omit students from
the report who have not taken enough courses.
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