Reporting Changes for 2022-23

For a summary of the changes being implemented at the start of the 2022-23 school year, see the document located to the left. More detailed information on each area can be found below.

The document to the left shows the academic achievement scale for grades 1-9 that will be used in Prairie Spirit School Division starting in 2022-23. Some items of note:

• Four levels of achievement and two levels where the outcome has not been achieved are available to use. The levels from beginning to mastery are different levels of meeting the outcome, from novice to sophisticated.

• Scores/grades are now awarded with alpha codes, not numbers.

• The language that will be used on progress reports will be the student friendly language. The language for PSSD Educators is to help define the levels enough to create consistency between PSSD teachers using the grades.

• Depending on school grade composition, some grade 9 classes may use the percentage scale used by grade 10-12 classes.

Parent/Student Version

As a support, the document to the left is also included - it is what is being shared with parents so that they know what language will be used to share academic learning progress.

In grades 10-12, academic achievement continues to be reported by percentage grade.

Having said this, many teachers of grade 10-12 classes find it very useful to assess by level and then convert to a percentage grade when reporting. To aid in inter-rater reliability (consistency in grading between teachers) the scale to the left has been developed. While not mandatory, PSSD teachers using a levelled grading system are encouraged to work off this document.

The grading scale used to score learning behaviours for all grades in Prairie Spirit School Division is changing. There will be four levels of achievement and one level of insufficient evidence. The four levels below are frequency based (describing how often the learning behaviours are observed) and align with the agreed upon terms used by the Ministry of Education in Saskatchewan. They include:

• Consistently

• Usually

• Sometimes

• Rarely

Synonyms are given for each level in the document to the left to aid in clarity.

The learning behaviours that will be reported on in Prairie Spirit School Division are changing as well. There will be different behaviours reported on for elementary and for high school. (Middle schools will adopt one of the formats, depending on whether a homeroom philosophy is used or not - schools will work with their Learning Superintendent to determine this.)

Elementary students will be assessed on eight learning behaviours, grouped into four categories, while high school students will be assessed on three learning behaviours. For all of these, the intent is to make the learning behaviours observable so that the frequency scale noted above can be readily used to grade. Further details can be found in the document to the left.