Reporting Progress :
Grading Essential Learning Targets are a way for us to track students understanding and progress throughout the school year.
As teachers teach, they assess students’ progress toward meeting the targets. Progress is reported by using the following terminology:
Score quartiles: 1, 2, 2.5, 2.75, 3, 3.25, 3.5, 4
Graduation Standard Mastery Key:
3.2 - 4.0= Generates new ideas and applies knowledge to new topics; create, hypothesize, formulate, etc.
2.8 - 3.19 = Understands the connections between parts of the topic; analyze, compare/contrast, explain the causes of, etc.
2.4 - 2.79 = Understands several parts of the topic; list, describe, combine, etc.
Below 2.4 = Little to no understanding of only one part of the topic
All content scores will be averaged over the whole year. Formative and summative assessments will both be weighted when calculating content scores.
A student should not have to undertake a large amount of independent work to earn a “4”. Opportunities to study advanced topics, tackle challenging problems, and develop advanced skills will be made explicit and actively supported as part of regular instruction whenever possible for all students.