Coming Soon, in a Gradebook near You...
As I went through high school, there were many variables in the composition of my teachers' gradebooks. Some teachers had hundreds and thousands of points possible; other had just dozens of points possible. Some teachers curved their tests, and others did not. Some teachers accepted late work, and others did not. The variables were seemingly endless. Extra credit was possible in some classes, but not others. Some teachers graded work that was simply complete; others chose not to collect assignments whatsoever and simply used our test scores to compose our final class grades. Starting a new high school class was as much about understanding the "game" I had to play to earn my "A" as it was about learning the new content. Sometimes, the game may have even been more important than actually knowing the new material. When I began college, however, this changed. First, I had to know the material. Second, the game was relatively similar in each class. In short, my colle...