{"id":115,"date":"2012-06-18T14:17:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T18:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/vhs\/art\/?page_id=115"},"modified":"2022-04-07T10:55:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T14:55:13","slug":"grading-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/vhs\/art\/grading-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Grading Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong>VOORHEES<\/strong><strong> HIGH SCHOOL ART DEPARTMENT\u00a0<\/strong><strong>GRADING POLICY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MARKING PERIOD GRADE:<\/strong>\u00a0In general, the marking period grade will be arrived at by\u00a0averaging the following grades:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Project\/Classwork Grades<\/li>\n<li>Class Participation Grades<\/li>\n<li>Homework Grades<\/li>\n<li>Test\/Quiz Grades, if applicable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PROJECT GRADES:\u00a0<\/strong>in general, projects will be assessed on the following five criteria, please see individual teacher rubrics for details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CRAFTSMANSHIP<\/strong>: the degree of skill and clarity by which the student uses\/practices when using different art making media<\/li>\n<li><strong>ORIGINALITY: <\/strong>novel and unique solutions to assigned problems<\/li>\n<li><strong>COMPOSITION:<\/strong> selecting and organizing the elements of art\u00a0in a piece of art work so that it works together as a whole.<\/li>\n<li><strong>EFFORT:<\/strong> degree of effort applied to the project.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MEETING THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT:<\/strong> All work must meet the objectives as\u00a0stated by the teacher at the beginning of the project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>DUE DATES:<\/strong>\u00a0In general, grades for projects not turned in on the due date will be lowered <strong>10% per SCHOOL DAY<\/strong> at the discretion of the individual art teacher (no more than 10% per day)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0CLASS PARTICIPATION<\/strong>&#8211; participation grades will be given based on the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Attendance &#8211; students who miss class will be expected to make up work<\/li>\n<li>Timeliness to class<\/li>\n<li>Preparedness for class<\/li>\n<li>Focus in class<\/li>\n<li>Treatment of studio environment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>HOMEWORK GRADES may include:<\/strong>\u00a0sketches, quality drawings, reports, and written critiques.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TEST\/QUIZ GRADES<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen tests are given, we will use the district grading scale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GRADING SCALE:<br \/>\n<\/strong>The grading system is numerical (58-100 effective 7\/2\/2020). To pass a year-long course, a student must have a final grade of at least 64 and a passing grade of 64 in three of the five major grading factors. These factors include the four marking periods and the final examination. To pass a semester course, a student must have a final grade of at least 64 and a passing grade of 64 in two of the three major grading factors. These factors include two marking periods and the final examination.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FINAL EXAMINATIONS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Full Year and Semester courses will have a final exam. <span style=\"color: initial;\">Final exams are comprehensive; that is, they cover the entire year\u2019s work. <\/span><span style=\"color: initial;\">If a student has a final grade of 93 or above for a course, then the student is exempt from taking the final exam for that course.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Final grade will be determined based on the district&#8217;s grading policy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Year-long course: 22.5% (MP1 Grade) + 22.5% (MP2 Grade) + 22.5% (MP3 Grade) + 22.5% (MP4 Grade) + 10% (Final Exam) = Final Grade<\/li>\n<li>Year-long course if exempt from final exam: 25% (MP1 Grade) + 25% (MP2 Grade) + 25% (MP3 Grade) + 25% (MP4 Grade) = Final Grade<\/li>\n<li>Semester course: 45% (MP1 Grade) + 45% (MP2 Grade) + 10% (Final Exam) = Final Grade<\/li>\n<li>Semester course if exempt from final exam: 50% (MP1 Grade) + 50% (MP2 Grade) = Final Grade<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CHEATING AND PLAGIARISM:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Cheating on tests and plagiarism of art works <strong>WILL NOT BE TOLERATED<\/strong>. If a student is found<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>guilty of cheating or plagiarism, they will receive a 0 for the project or test. Students will be<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>expected to produce ORIGINAL and CURRENT work for EACH art class. Students who turn in the<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>same project for more than one class will receive a ZERO on that project. Students who turn in old work<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(work from a previous year or class) will receive also receive a ZERO. Photography students are expected to shoot<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>new negatives for each assignment, to develop and print their own negatives. Having their negatives<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>developed and\/or printed by a store or by another student is considered to be cheating.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0VOORHEES HIGH SCHOOL ART DEPARTMENT\u00a0GRADING POLICY MARKING PERIOD GRADE:\u00a0In general, the marking period grade will be arrived at by\u00a0averaging the following grades: Project\/Classwork Grades Class Participation Grades Homework Grades Test\/Quiz Grades, if applicable PROJECT GRADES:\u00a0in general, projects will be assessed on the following five criteria, please see individual teacher rubrics for details: CRAFTSMANSHIP: the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-115","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry","6":"override"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/vhs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/vhs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/vhs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/vhs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/vhs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/vhs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/vhs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/vhs\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}