All students are expected to demonstrate exemplary effort in order to achieve their personal best. Students are expected to attend all classes and be punctual and prepared when they arrive for classes including having their laptop charged.

Assessment in the MYP 

Summative assessments in all subjects in the MYP are based on criteria (A, B, C, D) that allow students and teachers to measure how much progress has been made in achieving the subject objectives. Each subject has a number of different criteria which are used to evaluate students’ achievements. Sometimes all criteria are applied to an assessment task; sometimes only select criteria are applied, however, over the course of an academic year, all criteria must have been assessed a minimum of two times. The criteria are set aims for the end of each year of the MYP.

Examples of criteria from different subject groups:

For each criterion (A, B, C, D) there are level descriptors that describe, at different levels of

achievement, what a student knows, understands and is able to do. These descriptors explain what a level of achievement means in terms of a student’s learning and progress towards a subject’s objectives.

“MYP assessment uses a “criterion-related” approach which represents a philosophy of assessment that is neither “norm-referenced” (where students must be compared to each other and to an expected distribution of achievement) nor “criterion-referenced (where students must master all strands of specific criteria at lower achievement levels before they can be considered to have achieved the next level)”. Source: MYP: From principles into practice, 2014