Assessment Guidelines

What is formative assessment?

Formative assessments are checkpoints for understanding what happens throughout a unit to make sure students are progressing as they should.

How does it work?

Throughout a unit of learning, students will complete tasks via GoogleClassroom. Teachers will use these tasks completed during the unit to make a professional judgement and award each student a grade from A-E using the rubric. This rubric is also available to students and parents on Compass. Students can track where they are on the rubric and determine how to improve their understanding of the outcome in their learning to improve their grade for the assessed outcomes.

Why formative assessment?

Formative assessment provides the feedback to enable teacher and student to answer three key questions:

• What is to be learned?

• How is learning progressing?

• What will be learned next?
  

This effective feedback promotes student learning growth and ensures students are actively involved in their learning. Formative assessment provides teachers with data to allow adjustment to their teaching for the needs of their students.

A-E Grading

According to NESA, “the A to E grading scale lets teachers report student academic achievements at any point in time using clear standards”.

Teachers will make a professional on-balance judgement to decide which grade best matches the standards each student has achieved, based on work samples collected.

How do we ensure constant professional judgement is implemented?

The consistency of judgements about grades within and between schools comes from:

• following the Sydney Catholic Schools resources

• using the common grade scale and

• considering shared samples of student work throughout the Archdiocese