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The purpose of this program is to allow a teacher to easily maintain
grade records for students, organized by class, and to perform calculations
on the grades by student or by class.
There are five menus supplied with Class Record Book. The Apple
Menu has the usual function, the File Menu is supplied to allow explicit
opening, closing, and creating of Grade Record Books, printing, and closing
the application. All file handling is taken care of automatically by the
program, however, and the file menu options should only be necessary in
the case of switching classes within the application. The third menu, CRB,
initiates all services of the program. Font and style menus are also
supplied to allow the user to change the appearance of printed documents
from the program.
Add A Class
This command creates and opens a new class record book. A dialog is
used to allow entry of the percentage contribution of four classes of
grades to the final grade. The four classes are titled Quiz, Test,
HomeWork, and Final, but these names can be changed to any that seem
appropriate. The second type of information needed is the lowest point
grade to result in an A, B, C, and D letter grade. One should also identify
the name of the class when starting a new class record book. When the OK
button is pressed, the user is prompted for a disk file name in which data
is to be stored. File names have the characters .CRB appended to them by
the program, and the class name is suggested as the file name. If the
suggested name is suitable just press the save button, otherwise type a
new name and then press save. All items of information have default
values associated with them and displayed so that if no changes are
necessary, just push the OK button. Otherwise, edit the defaults as
necessary. The percentages associated with each class of grade must sum
to 100.
Delete A Class
This option is chosen when one wishes to delete a class record book
from disk. The standard Macintosh disk file dialog is presented, however
only class record books are supplied for selection. A warning alert is
provided after selection, since the deletion is final and data is lost.
Add A Student
This option is used to enter a student record into the file for a
particular class. The currently open class is displayed. A student name
and identification number are expected and defaults are provided. Edit
these two fields to the correct information. Note that the tab key can be
used to switch from one field to another.
Delete A Student
Use this option to remove a student from a class file. A student name
is displayed, supply the name of interest, or a partial name. If a partial
name is supplied a verification dialog will be displayed.
View
This command allows one to inspect the class file in several ways.
The default is the class option which provides an overview of the
information in the file. Averages are provided for the four classes of
grades, along with an overall average based on percentage contributions of
each class. With this option one is also allowed to change the class
variables controlling percentage contributions and point grades associated
with letter grades.
The second possibility is to request class detail, in which case a
display of each student in the class is provided along with their average
grade, again based on the contribution criteria.
The third possibility is to request a student view. This option
provides averages for an individual student, and allows for changing a
student name or identification number.
The final possibility is to request student detail. In this case all
recorded grades for a particular student are displayed. Notice that all
grades have an identifier associated with them. This allows
communications between the user and the program that identify a
particular grade.
In all cases the overall grade is projected if any category of grade has
not yet been utilized. This allows for checking student progress during the
grading period and prior to final examination. The projection technique is
to average all grades in other categories and to use this average for
inactive categories.
Class Grades
Use this command to enter new grades or alter existing grades for an
entire class.
Initially one specifies the maximum point score possible for the
instrument and/or a grade identification number if it is wished that the
grades for a previously entered instrument be changed. At this time one
also indicates which category of instrument is involved and whether or not
the instrument is to be deleted.
When the OK button is pushed, one is presented with the name of each
student in the class and the opportunity to enter the new grade or change
an existing one. If the delete option was chosen, the program just deletes
the grade in each students record without waiting for further interactions.
Grade identifiers are supplied by the program. In order for a delete
class grade to operate correctly it is necessary that the grade be
identified uniquely and identically in the record for each student.
Student Grade
Use this feature to enter new grades or change existing ones for an
individual student. A grade identification number must be supplied to
allow the program to identify the grade of interest. This number can be
determined by viewing student detail for the student of interest.
The grade previous and next buttons are provided to allow scanning
forward or backwards to the instrument of interest. No updates are made
when these controls are used.
The student name can be supplied either partially or wholly. If a
partial name is supplied the best match will be displayed, after which one
can use the previous or next buttons to move to the record of interest.
Once the correct student is located a grade for the identified instrument
can be entered or searched for via the grade next/previous buttons.
It is also possible to see and alter a counter associated with the
student intended to reflect absences. If no grade ID is specified it is
assumed that the absence counter is going to be altered. Number of
absences is displayed by the View Student option in addition to the detail
class report.
Next, previous, and OK, all cause any changes supplied to be reflected
on the current student's record.
Grade identifiers must be handled rather carefully to avoid confusing
the question of which grades apply to which instruments. Student Grade,
on the other hand, allows great flexibility in making any changes one
desires to a particular student record. The standard use is to change an
individual grade that has been misrecorded. It is, however, also possible
to delete a grade or add a new grade to an individual student.
Analyze
This option is provided to allow the analysis of a particular
instrument. When selected, one can identify a particular instrument and
the mean, median, mode, and standard deviation are displayed. At that
time one can curve the grades in either direction, either by points or
percentage. New numbers are then displayed and further adjustments can
be entered until the final results are as desired. Once the selection of a
point curve or a percentage curve is made it cannot be changed unless the
analysis is restarted. When done, if the OK button is pressed the curve
will be applied to the permanent student records. A graphic display of the
grade curve can be requested on which the x axis is the curved percentage
grade and the y axis is the percentage of students achieving a grade level.
Reorganize Grades
This option is supplied so that grade identifiers can be reorganized.
If a grade is deleted, it will leave a discontinuity in grade ID's. It is also
possible to cause grades to exist in the record out of numeric sequence by
deleting and adding in the Student Grade Dialog. When chosen this feature
will sort and renumber grades for all students.
Print (file menu)
This feature is supplied to allow printing of a list of students in the
class and their overall average and letter grade. A choice is supplied to
provide a list with only student ID's for identification in additon to an
option that supplies individual grades making up the average.
Use the shift/option 4 feature of the macintosh to print the active
screen for hardcopy of individual view screens.
For best results use 12 point Monaco when printing.
Quit
Enter this command to terminate the program.