how do i average the grades of schoolwork to give final grade?

Question

i am a new homeschooler and i need help on grading. if anyone is a homeschooling mom or dad, please help. my daughter has this curriculum that has quizzes after every week and quarterly test every 9 weeks. how am i suppose to average the final grade. do i count the quizzes as less percent of the grade and how do i do that.

Answer 1

If there are 10 quizzes with ten questions each, then make each quiz worth ten points.

Then you add up the total points for all quizzes like this-

9/10
6/10
10/10
10/10
8/10
7/10
9/10
10/10
5/10
6/10=80/100... so the percentage of her quizzes would be 80%.

Average this with her final exam to get an average for the year.

Answer 2

It is actually up to you. But in the simplest terms you need to add up all of her scores. You then divide that number by the number of points possible.

For example if each quiz is worth 10 points, each test is worth 30 points, and there are 32 weeks in the school year than her scores for one quarter might look like this

Q1 7/10
Q2 9/10
Q3 8/10
Q4 9/10
Q5 9/10
Q6 8/10
Q7 7/10
Q8 9/10
T1 26/30

So you would add 7+9+8+9+9+8+7+9+26=92
And 10*8+30=120

then divide 92/120=.7666666 which means that she would have a percentage score of 76% for the quarter

At the end of the school year, add all of the percentage scores together and divide by 4 to get the final percentage score.

Answer 3

As the teacher, you get to decide how much everything is worth. If you want everything to be worth the same, you just add up the percentages of each item and divide by the number of items.

Now, if you want weighted grading, meaning something like:

Quizzes are 25% of the mark
Test are 30% of the mark
Final exam is 30% of the mark
And everything else you give her is 15% of the mark

Then you do the same thing as above, but that will be the mark for the quizzes section only. You then multiply by 25/100 to get the final mark for quizzes.

There's a great program out there that will do the calculations for you and you can even choose to set up weighted courses to have more complicated calculations. It's called Homeschool Tracker Plus. http://www.homeschooltracker.com . You can try out the basic version (it's free) to see if you like it, but it won't do the weighted grading--you need to pay for the Plus version to do that. Right now it's $35 and wil be going up to $39 as of Jan. 1. The support is fantastic, you get free updates to the program for life, there's an online support forum... Check it out. It's not just for the grades--the program is set up for tracking what you do, planning what you do, printing off reports and more.

Answer 4

Grade #1 + Grade #2 + Grade #3 = Grade #4 and divide Grade #4 by 3

Answer 5

I am not a homeschool - I am a teacher - and if you give me what number is for the total number of quizes, work assignment/homework, and a discription of the final test after 9 weeks I will give you a method on how to calculate the whole thing.

Good Luck!!!

Answer 6

I homeschooled 2 of my children when yhey were in 6th and 1st grade. I didn't need to "grade" them just had to turn in a log book of hours, assignments completed and samples from each subject. I guess if you need to grade then grading each quiz and then finding the average would be the best way. 10 question quiz answers 10 points each, 20 question quiz answers 5 points each ect...

Answer 7

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Answer 8

First, you add all the scores together, then you divide by the amount of scores.......


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