Assessment Policy

ASSESSMENT POLICY

1. School administrators, teachers and students are bound by SACE assessment and moderation policies.These are available for consultation on the SACE Board website. The school’s assessment policy is based on these policies.
2. All teachers design Learning and Assessment Plans (LAPs) for their subjects. By the end of the second week of the semester, teachers will give students a detailed assessment outline for their subject, based on the relevant LAP and the performance standards. It will outline required assessment tasks and relative weightings.
3. All summative and formative tasks are expected to be completed, and the latter may count, at the teacher’s discretion, towards Eynesbury’s internal reports. Formative tasks include regular homework, practice tests, in-class activities, and learning tasks which provide opportunity for feedback and preparation for formal summative assessment.
4. Assessment tasks must be submitted in person to the teacher on or before the due date. Unless otherwise stated, prepared work should be handed no later than the beginning of the appropriate lesson and in print form with the task sheet attached. It is also advisable to submit an electronic copy.
5. Requests for an extension will be considered up to the day before the due date. If there is compelling medical or other evidence, the teacher may, at his/her discretion, set a new deadline. Requests for extensions on the due date will only be granted in exceptional circumstances.
6. Requested extensions longer than 2 weeks will need to be approved by the SACE Coordinator (Year 12) or the Principal who will consult with other staff.
7. If an assessment task is either not submitted or submitted late without explanation or submitted late without an acceptable explanation, then a teacher will award a zero or equivalent mark. This task cannot be counted as evidence of learning towards the student’s assessment
8. Note the SACE Board direction: ‘Schools should not accept work that is not presented according to school-set deadlines and where there is not a valid reason.’
9. The teacher is the final judge of what is acceptable as a reason for late submission.
10. Sickness on the due date for an assignment generally does not constitute sufficient reason for an extension. If you are sick on the day an assignment is due, you should make every effort to get your work to your teacher by your lesson time eg submit an electronic version.
11. It is the student's responsibility to see the teacher about assessment tasks affected by any absence.
12. It is the student's responsibility to allow for such eventualities as problems with information technology and submit work by the due date and time. Computer problems, failure to save or backup work are not sufficient reasons to extend summative deadlines.

TESTS AND IN-CLASS ASSESSMENTS (including absence on the day of an assessment or test)

Tests and other in-class assessment tasks (eg oral presentations) are frequent assessment practices.

1. If a student is absent on the day of the test or in-class assessment, a parent or caregiver must contact the College on the day of absence. (Students who live independently must contact the College themselves).
2. The student must see the teacher immediately upon returning to school in order to negotiate the assessment implications of missing the test. Students can also initiate this discussion via email, telephone or Daymap message prior to returning to school and are encouraged to do so.
3. The teacher will take into account any medical and/or compassionate grounds relating to the absence, but the teacher is the final judge as to what constitutes an acceptable reason for missing the test or assessment.
4. Medical certificates should be provided wherever possible and may be required for students with a pattern of non-submission of work.
5. If an acceptable reason for missing the test is not given, a teacher will award a zero or equivalent mark. This task cannot be counted as evidence of learning towards the student’s assessment.

PLAGIARISM

Students will find information about referencing and the appropriate use of sources on the Eynesbury Library site and the SACE Board website.

Plagiarism is a form of poor scholarship. It involves the use without appropriate acknowledgement of words or ideas of another as if they were a student’s own work. As such, it constitutes an inappropriate use of sources and is a serious breach of the SACE and Eynesbury assessment policies.

Other forms of inappropriate scholarship include:

• Submitting work by someone else as your own.
• Independently submitting the same piece of work as another student when the expectation was clearly that students would submit individual work.
• Submitting a piece of work for two different subjects, even if done in different years.
• Submitting work that has been subjected to detailed editing, correction or alteration by a private tutor, parent or other person.
• Bringing into an examination room materials not allowed under examination rules.
• Otherwise cheating in a test or examination.