Assessment Evaluation & Report
The primary purpose of assessment and evaluation is to improve student learning.
Evaluation and Assessment information:
- Identifies each student’s academic strengths and weaknesses.
- Measures student improvement during the year.
- Monitors the effectiveness of curriculum content, delivery and instructional strategies in relation to student needs.
Regular classroom attendance is essential to student achievement since evaluation is an ongoing process,
Assessment and evaluation tools must reflect classroom-learning activities, the curriculum content covered, the needs and experience of the students.
Assessment and evaluation strategies must accommodate the needs of exceptional students as outlined in each Individual Education Plan and of those students who are learning English.
Assessment and evaluation strategies are varied in nature in nature, administered throughout the school year and allow students to demonstrate their learning in a range of oral, written and demonstration activities.
- Each teacher must clearly communicate the evaluation and assessment policies, strategies, and reporting process to parents and students at the beginning of each school year.
- Each teacher must provide a record of student evaluation upon student or parent request as well as at the three regular school reporting times. Teacher-student-parent conferences can be arranged at any time of the school year by appointment with the teacher or vice-principal.
Grade 9-12:
Assessment and evaluation strategies are based on the categories of knowledge and skulls (knowledge/understanding, thinking/enquiring, communication, application) and on the achievement level descriptions given in the achievement charts for each discipline.