Assessment

General information about assessment

Just like in any Finnish comprehensive school, the assessment follows the Finnish national core curriculum and it uses versatile ways of assessment. This means that tests are not the only way of assessing the students, but also many other factors have an effect on a student's assessment. Examples of these factors could be lesson work/working and homework, portfolios and working skills. We always strive to offer students different ways to show their skills and knowledge. 

The students get national grades on their report cards. In grades 1-3, students receive a verbal grade on a scale of excellent, good, fair, pass and fail. In grades 4-6, students receive grades from 4 (has not fulfilled the requirements) to 10 (Excellent performance). Also the test grades marked in Wilma use the same Finnish scale.

In addition to the cards and the official three-way conference, the students get feedback throughout the school year for example in form of oral feedback, test grades, Wilma-marks and feedback on the (portfolio)assignments.

Report cards

At the end of the autumn and spring term the students get a report card containing a verbal grade for each subject in grades 1-3 and a numerical grade (or passed) in grades 4-6 for each subject. The report card gotten at the end of the autumn term is a mid-term report meaning that the report card the student gets in the spring covers the studies from both terms. The grades are based on the subject specific objectives and work during the lessons. You can read more about the assessment of the working here.  

Assessment of behaviour

In addition to the subject specific grades the report cards contain even a behaviour grade. The only exception to this is the final report where the behaviour grade is a separate attachment. All the teachers teaching a student will give a grade based on our common assessment policy for behaviour and, based on those grades, the class teacher gives the grade for the report card. 

Setting own goals for the studies and the three-way conferences

Before the autumn break the students set goals for their own learning. These goals are shared with the guardians. In February the student, the class teacher and the guardian(s) will discuss how well the goals have been met (+the studies in general)  in a three-way conference.

The IB-attachment to the final report

 
At the end of the 9th grade our students won't get the official MYP-report but the Finnish final report. In addition to that the students will get our own school-specific appendix to their final report card,  stating that they have been studying according to the IB MYP programme framework. However, a student is eligible to this appendix only if they have successfully completed the personal project, which is a requirement at the end of the MYP programme. A criteria-based assessment of this project can be found in this appendix, as can also be a comment from the project supervisor. In addition, the appendix states whether the student has completed the required Service as action -activities during the upper grades. Students studying in English Acquisition classes (BD classes) will also receive an IB criteria based final assessment in English in accordance with the IB language acquisition level "Proficient". 

Information on the evaluation of individual subjects

Information on the assessment of individual subjects can be found in the curriculum of the Ressu Comprehensive School.