Formative assessments are used in the instructional part of each unit to inform students and teachers about the students’ understanding; these assessments are considered practice and help us see how the student is progressing toward course objectives. Teachers of these courses will create formative rubrics that use IB subject standards for each subject group as well as task-specific descriptors of the assessment. Formatives in DP courses will be assessed and reported on Infinite Campus on a DP 1-7 point scale. 

Summative assessments are given at the end of a learning period to allow students to demonstrate what they know. Summative assessments are the primary measure used to determine the student’s overall course numerical LILA-level school grade on a 1-7 point scale, which is also used to calculate a student’s GPA. Like formatives, summatives are necessary to prepare students for IB DP assessments and to build important skills. Summative assessments are the primary measure used to determine the student’s overall numerical grade.

Teachers of DP courses will align their summative assessments as closely as possible with IB DP assessment criteria. Official rubrics for DP assessments (internal and external assessments) vary greatly in terms of criteria, total marks/points, etc. from course to course. Teachers will convert their LILA summative grades from the score on a completed rubric to a grade on the DP 1-7 scale for reporting purposes on Infinite Campus. 

IB DP Grades and LILA (School) Grades

All LILA Diploma Programme courses are awarded both a final IB DP grade and a final LILA (school) grade. 

IB Diploma Programme Grades 

Students will be notified of their official DP scores in the summer after high school graduation.

• Internal assessments (IA): Completed according to IB DP procedures. Scored by LILA teachers with IB rubrics, then moderated by official, trained IB examiners. These IB grades do not go into the LILA grade book and are not calculated into a student’s GPA.

• External assessments (EA): Completed according to IB DP procedures. Scored by official, trained IB examiners. These IB grades do not go into the LILA grade book and are not calculated into a student’s GPA.

LILA (School) Grades

Students will receive these grades through Infinite Campus throughout the year.

• Earned by all students enrolled in courses at LILA; go toward progress reports as well as final course grade, as well as GPA on a student’s LILA transcript:

  • Formatives 

  • Summatives 

Students will be awarded credit for the successful completion of an academic course at the end of each semester. Credit is not awarded for study hall.  

Successful completion is defined as a final grade of 3 through 7. 

Students that complete a daily course are awarded 0.5 credit per semester, while every other day courses are awarded 0.25 credit per semester.  

A semester final grade of 1 or 2 in a required course may require a student to repeat the course in a subsequent year or complete credit recovery.