The individual teachers of Harvest Christian
Academy are responsible for establishing grading criteria and
standards for each course. The High School Course Description
and Standards form is to be submitted prior to the beginning
of each course being administered for high school credit. Each
student receives a copy of course requirements as well as the
standard for evaluation at the onset of each new course. It
is the responsibility of the individual instructor to document
student performance in order to justify all grades given. The
justification must be in accordance with the High School Course
Description and Standard on file in the school office.
Honors courses are factored into the student’s GPA on a 5.0
scale while regular classes are computed on a 4.0 scale. To
qualify as an honors course the curriculum must meet one or
more of the following criteria:
- college level curriculum is used ( not all community college
classes use college level curriculum)
- packaged curriculum is used which states that academics
are honors level.
- Additional instruction and assignments are given for the
same course credits
- (e.g. , a 5 credit course which expects 7 credit hours
of effort)
- the honors course is substantiated by the rest of the transcript
( e.g., honors math students take classes in higher math beyond
Algebra ;honors English
- students take an extensive amount of English)
- HCA staff assists in evaluating a course as honors level.
Honors credit may only be given when a thorough Course Description
and standard justifying honors level credit is on file in the
HCA office.
See Records for the standard HCA letter grade percentiles.
Instructors who choose to alter this grading scale must include
a specific grading scale with justification in the Course Description
and Standards which must be on file prior to the beginning of
the class. |
