Assessment and curriculum are interconnected. Curriculum sets the learning standards that give focus to classroom instruction and assessment. Assessment involves the wide variety of methods or tools that educators use to identify student learning needs, measure competency acquisition, and evaluate students’ progress toward meeting the learning standards. All forms will support a more flexible, personalized approach to learning and measure deeper, complex thinking through multiple forms of formative and summative assessment.
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Principles of Quality Assessment
The Ministry of Education provides a framework for Classroom Assessment. This document discusses establishing criteria, criteria categories, assessment rationale and grade level applications of the framework. |
Our new focus on the development of competencies (what students can do) influences classroom instruction and assessment practices. Increasingly, formative criterion-referenced assessment is creating the basis for responsive communication between students, parents, and teachers on where students are in their learning (“Where am I now?”) and what students need to do to improve (“Where to next?”). |
Communicating Student LearningSD22's communicating student learning guidelines and policies. |
The provincial proficiency scale provides language to communicate learning to parents. Here you will find information on understanding the scale and using proficiency language. |
Digital portfolios lead to flexible and timely communication for parents. We have put together some information on how to incorporate digital portfolios into your classroom? |