Overview

Educators should review a student’s academic history (detailed course credit and grade information for current and prior years) to see related courses with which a student may be struggling or has struggled with in the past. In addition, educators can review aggregated information on declining grades for groups of students in order to identify and address similar issues among groups of students or issues within a particular subject.     

With the ability to closely monitor course performance at the end of each grading period, educators can introduce specific academic interventions with one student or a group of students before a declining grade or eventual failure in one grading period becomes a permanent low grade or course failure and credit deficit at semester- or year-end. In addition to targeted academic support, teachers can pursue interventions to improve the conditions that research suggests affect classroom effort and achievement.

Dropping Class Grade Metrics