MYP Grading

Middle Years Programme (MYP)
Formative and Summative Assessments

All non-DP courses at Upper School use the MYP Grading Practices.

Formative assessments are used in the instructional part of each unit to inform students and teachers about the students’ understanding. Formative assessments are considered practice and help us to understand how the student is progressing in each criterion. Teachers should use formative assessments to give timely, criterion based, and effective feedback.

Summative assessments are given at the end of a learning period as a tool to assess the student’s growth and to allow students to demonstrate what they know. Summative assessments are the primary measure used to determine the student’s overall criterion based level of achievement.

MYP Criteria

The MYP approach to assessment varies in that the students are assessed on a set of criteria. Each criteria in each of the MYP courses are weighted equally (0-8). Each criteria is assessed at least once per semester (Terms 1 and 2 or Terms 3 and 4) to determine the first and second semester grades for the course. The criteria below represent the holistic nature of the MYP.

MYP Criteria - 2023

REPORTING OF GRADES

The student’s overall achievement level in the course is determined by evaluating evidence from each of the subject area’s criteria at the end of the year. Parents and students will be updated quarterly on the student’s progress in the course. Reports are available on Infinite Campus approximately one week after each quarter ends. The official grade for the course is determined and reported at the end of each semester. IB uses rubrics to communicate student’s achievement of the criteria on assessments and rubrics for individual course assessments can be found on Infinite Campus. All rubrics are on a 0-8 international scale. These are converted quarterly to a (1-7) scale - see below. We use our online grade book, Infinite Campus, to report on the IB achievement levels and to report out progress grades and the final grade at the end of the school year.

IB Levels of Achievement

MYP Retake/Late work Procedures

MYP/DP Late Work/Retake Procedures -2023

Reporting Grades

MYP GRADING/ASSESSMENT - 2023

Course Credit

High School students (grades 9-12)

Students will be awarded Graduation 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 .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.

Middle School students (grades 6-8)

Students will be awarded Graduation Credits for the successful completion of a language course and/or high school geometry at the end of each semester.