I'm curious about how others handle scoring retest questions. I give full credit, some of my colleagues average the retest and initial test scores.

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We give full credit. If they learned it, they learned it! We don’t really care if it took them a little longer to master the content. However, school policy is that kids need to finish all the practice work (any assignments/homework related to the assessment), before the original assessment date to be eligible to retake it.

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We set policies as a math department. It’s full credit, even if it takes a second try to get there.

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Instead of retest I have the students complete test corrections for partial credit back(which values to half the points they lost) so if the student scored 12/20 points they lost 8 points so by completing corrections they would get back 4 points and new score would be 16/20 and I make notes in comment section of what original score
It is up to the teacher if students are offered chance to improve grade on assessments there is no policy

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We have a school policy that students are able to retake assessments if they complete their practice work (in class work/homework), but it’s vaguely written, so each grade level department tends to interpret it differently. 6th grade math interprets this to mean that students must complete all practice work BEFORE the original test is given to be eligible to retake the assessment. They also only offer retakes of an assessment up until the next assessment is given, which is usually in another 2 weeks for math. After an assessment the ‘practice work’ is reset, so students only need to have all of their practice work done for the skills being assessed to be eligible to retake, not for the whole year. Full credit is given, but students are given a ‘retake’ version of the test, same skills and point value, but different questions.

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Others don't give full credit but I do. It doesn't matter if it's a retest or an initial test. For me it deserves full credit.

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Our school policy is to average original test with retest. We only allow one retest per nine weeks.

Grades at middle school don't matter, so just CYA and keep admin happy. I have done things the last few years that I never thought I'd do.

I’m a 8th grade math teacher and in a perfect world you have time to re-teach. We don’t live in a perfect world. I feel if we teach with mastery in mine and not a big test with no validity our students will show achievement. It’s all about money, sadly.

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