The use of "Conditional Pass" (CP).
The key components are standards based assessments, use of "Conditional Pass", and regular progress meetings.
Scores were distributed on a scale ranging from 0 to 4 with.5 increments: 0 (full fail),.5 (fail), 1.0 (conditional pass I), 1.5 (conditional pass II), 2.0 (acceptable), 2.5 (satisfactory), 3.0 (good), 3.5 (very good), and 4.0 (excellent).
In the fourth year of implementation 701 students had 3539 assessment results, of which 4.1% were Conditional Pass.
The grade was reflected on a 5-point performance scale: 0 (fail), 1 (conditional pass), 2 (acceptable), 3 (good), and 4 (excellent).
Since this study was conducted, the audit rating system was simplified in September 2010 to a 3-grade system including pass, conditional pass and fail to better reflect systems used in several jurisdictions for evaluating food safety at restaurants [ 25].
The key components of this system of assessment are setting clear expectations, use of conditional pass (CP), longitudinally monitoring progress and not allowing strengths in one area to compensate for deficits in a different area.
Conditional pass circumvents some of the problems of borderline passes [ 2, 3, 17], encourages assessors to describe specific behaviours [ 3], encourages gathering of more information where there is doubt [ 2, 17- 19], assists in providing feedback [ 2], and automatically creates a paper trail of defensible documentation.
This underlies the absurdity of the proposition, supported by certain politicians, that grade promotions and high school graduation should be conditional on passing statewide exams at the college preparatory level.
He said: "The issue here is that the right to marry and found a family is a basic human right and is it proper, is it right, that that right to marry should be made conditional on passing a test in English?
