Assessment
Families receive ongoing information about their child’s learning in a variety of ways. Letters home, email, newsletters, student presentations, portfolios, various digital media, and report cards are just a few of the ways we communicate student learning.
The Ministry of Education provides a comprehensive list to give parents a solid understanding of the principles of quality assessment:
- Is fair, transparent, meaningful and responsive to all learners
- Focuses on all three components of the curriculum model - know, do, understand
- Provides ongoing, descriptive feedback to students
- Is ongoing, timely, specific and embedded in day-to-day instruction
- Provides varied and multiple opportunities for learners to demonstrate their learning
- Documents student learning over time - creating a profile of their strengths and areas of growth/further development
- Is through multiple means and varied strategies
- makes the students' learning visible and celebrates successes
- Provides new learning goals and targets and describes ways to support the student's learning
- Involves the students in their learning
- Engages students in self-assessment and goal setting for next steps in learning
- Allows for a collection of students work to be gathered over time = full profile of the learner
- Communicates clearly to the learner (and the parents): where they are, what they working towards and how learning can be supported