OAS Assessment Strategy

At OAS we believe that students who take an active role in the assessment process have greater success. Therefore our assessment processes are done with the students. The use of rubric and assessment criteria assists students to recognise where they are at and what they need to work on next. This allows OAS students to lead conversations around their learning. Assessment information is gathered from a range of sources, focusing on students strengths. It covers all areas of the New Zealand curriculum as well as the skills and competencies that students need to be life learners.

Assessment information is used for two purposes. Firstly to identify students next steps in their learning journeys. Secondly to evaluate the level a student is at against the New Zealand curriculum

In Years 1-10 students are evaluated against the curriculum levels using an Overall Teacher Judgement (OTJ). OTJ's combine all the assessment information gathered from a range of assessment tools to come up with an overall level of where the student is against the curriculum levels.

Along side curriculum assessment OAS also assess the key competencies which are a set of skills students need to become life long learners.