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:
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what students are expected to be able to do in a given grade or area of learning
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The Curricular Competencies are the skills, strategies, and processes that students develop over time.
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what students should know in a given area of learning at a particular grade level
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The Content learning standards detail the essential topics and knowledge at each grade level.
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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.
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Reading (Grades 1-10, English, French Immersion and Francophone)
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Writing (Grades 1-10, English, French Immersion and Francophone)
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Numeracy (Grades 1-8, English and French Immersion/Francophone)
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Social Responsibility (Grades 1-8, English and French Immersion/Francophone)
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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
SD57 Secondary Science Competencies Continuum
Includes progressions of quality (learning scales) for the science curricular competencies for Grades 7 through 12
Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
A revised visualization of Bloom's taxonomy that better highlights the value of creating, evaluating, and analyzing.