Criterion-Related AssessmentAssessment is an important part of MYP, as it informs teaching and learning by informing teachers about students' content knowledge and skills and what they need practice to develop and work toward mastery. The goals of assessment are to:
Teachers assess students both formatively (practice work, homework, etc) and summatively (tests, papers, quizzes, labs, performances, etc.) to evaluate students' growth in terms of the subject's objectives. Each subject has four criteria with multiple objectives. Students are assessed on these criterion at least two times per year to monitor their growth. |
MYP subjects are aligned so each of the criterion categories is assessing a similar skill, just specifying the language for what it looks like in that content area. In this way, we can think of the criterion categories as:
Each criterion evaluates students' achievement level on a 1-8 scale. This scale is not meant to be a percentage grade, but rather demonstrate the student's development of that skill or mastery of content knowledge.
Each year of the program, the achievement levels for each criterion are aligned to students' developmental level. The following documents are the criteria for each subject and reference different years of the program. The following are which year's criteria are used for each grade.
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Many of our teachers at ROMS and ROHS are moving in the direction of a standards-based classroom. In order to support a growth mindset, students will have multiple opportunities to practice new learning prior to assessment, but the practice scores (if any) will not count toward the final grade. Formative assessments will be used to provide feedback to students and identify areas in which they can improve their learning. Final grades will include only summative assessments; if a student demonstrates increased proficiency, he/she will earn that increased grade without being penalized for previous performance. Assessments will be aligned to one of the four MYP assessment rubrics (included) and students will spend time in class becoming familiar with the success criteria.
For more information about standard-based grading, MYP, and how this is reported on MiStar, please reference the following guidebook:
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