Assessment

Assessment is an integrated part of teaching and learning in our SD57 schools.

SD57 Vision Statements: Assessment

The purpose of assessment is to improve learning by informing students of their progress and informing their teachers about their understanding.

Standards-based Assessment

Assessment in SD57 is standards-based as per the B.C. Ministry of Education’s guidelines. Standards-based assessment supports a criterion-referenced approach to evaluation and enables teachers, students, and parents to compare student performance to provincial standards.

BC Curriculum Learning Standards

The learning standards are explicit statements of:

• what students are expected to be able to do in a given grade or area of learning

  • The Curricular Competencies are the skills, strategies, and processes that students develop over time.

• what students should know in a given area of learning at a particular grade level

  • The Content learning standards detail the essential topics and knowledge at each grade level.

BC Performance Standards

Assessment in SD57 is standards-based as per the B.C. Ministry of Education’s guidelines. Standards-based assessment supports a criterion-referenced approach to evaluation and enables teachers, students, and parents to compare student performance to provincial standards.

• Reading (Grades 1-10, English, French Immersion and Francophone)

• Writing (Grades 1-10, English, French Immersion and Francophone)

• Numeracy (Grades 1-8, English and French Immersion/Francophone)

• Healthy Living

Evidence-based Assessment

Quality assessment is evidence based. Quality evidence is gathered over time. Evidence should be triangulated from three different sources: products by the student, observations by the teacher, and conversations “...between student and teacher, between student and student, and between the student and him- or herself.” (Sandra Herbst and Anne Davies)

Supports for High Quality Assessment

BC Ministry of Education: Assessment and Reporting

SD57 Secondary Science Competencies Continuum

Includes progressions of quality (learning scales) for the science curricular competencies for Grades 7 through 12

Framework Space: Jennifer Moroz, SD57

Includes free portfolio resources and links to assessment frameworks.

Connect 2 Learning

Anne Davies and Sandra Herbst

Includes Seven Actions of Assessment for Learning

Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning

A revised visualization of Bloom's taxonomy that better highlights the value of creating, evaluating, and analyzing.

Assessment Events