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SBL Language grading

Posted on October 17, 2014 at 6:00am 4 Comments

I find it interesting that I am described as being "particularly scathing" about the the use of A-F grades because what I have said many times is that the symbols are less important than what they mean. Scott, I agree that what you describe is a lot better than traditional grading because you have a profile of your daughter's achievement in French. My difficulty with what you describe is twofold; one, for three standards the grade is based on one score and because of luck, chance and…

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At 7:02am on July 15, 2014, Scott Habeeb said…
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