Your child
will receive a report card that is specifically designed for all IB public
schools in BC. This report card provides
parents with more detailed information than traditional letter grades for each
student about their areas of strengths and possibilities for further growth.
Students
study 8 curricular areas, Language and Literature, Individuals and Society,
Mathematics, Science, Language Acquisition, Physical and Health Education, Design and Art. For each subject area there are 4 criteria
that will be used to assess student progress.
These criteria break each subject down into different skills so that
feedback is more specific than traditional averaging. Students will be awarded a level 0-8 on each
of the 4 criteria. To pass a course a
student must have a total of 8 between the 4 criteria.
Levels of achievement
are not marks out of 8 but more a snapshot of where the student is in their
development of a continuum of thinking and learning.
Understanding what each level means…
Level
0/1
|
Work is not meeting expectations or
has not been handed in. Students has
an “I” for inprogress.
|
Level
2
|
Produces work of limited quality. Expresses misunderstandings or significant gaps
in understanding. The student has
difficulty applying knowledge and skills.
|
Level
3/4
|
Produces work of acceptable quality
and communicates basic understanding of many concepts and contexts. The student is beginning to demonstrate
critical and creative thinking but requires support.
|
Level
5/6
|
Produces high-quality, occasionally
innovative work. Communicates secure
understanding of concepts and contexts.
Demonstrates critical and creative thinking, sometimes with sophistication. Uses knowledge in familiar real-world
situations
|
Level
7/8
|
Produces high quality, innovative
work. Communicates comprehensive
understanding of concepts and contexts.
Consistently demonstrates sophisticated critical and creative thinking. Can transfer knowledge to unfamiliar
real-world situations.
|
Tips for reading your child’s report:
- Term 1 and Term 2 report cards do not
have OLA (Overall Level of Achievement).
- NA will be used to indicate that the
criterion has not been assessed at this point
- 0 will be used to communicate with
parents that the student has either not handed in the assignment or the work
was not of sufficient quality and the student has an “I” (in progress) at this
moment. Students must make up missed
work.
- Term 2 marks are cumulative
(combination of term 1 and 2 marks)
- At the end of the year an OLA will be
calculated for each student by adding their level of achievement for each
criteria and converting it to an OLA 0-7.
Example of Student Marks:
Subject Criteria for Science
|
Criterion A
|
6
|
|
Criterion B
|
5
|
|
Criterion C
|
3
|
|
Criterion D
|
4
|
|
Total
|
18
|
|
Boundaries
|
OLA
|
|
1-5
|
1
|
|
6-9
|
2
|
|
10-14
|
3
|
|
15-18
|
4
|
|
19-23
|
5
|
|
24-27
|
6
|
|
28-32
|
7
|
Student
would receive their level for each Criterion on the Term 3 report, as well as,
their OLA level of 4
Approaches to Learning (ATL's)
Approaches to learning are a set of skills that students master throughout the program that will allow them to be life-long learners. These skills are taught in the classroom and then students have opportunities to self-reflect on their progress throughout the year. Teachers will report out on a minimum of one ATL on each report card. Please see the ATL tab for more infomation.
Teachers organize continuous assessment over the course of the year accorting to MYP assessment criteria. Teachers are responsible
for structuring varied tasks that will allow students to demonstrate their learning
These include:
- open-ended,
problem-solving activities
- tests and examinations
- investigations
- organized
debates
- hands-on
experimentation
- analysis
and reflection
- performances
- product
design and completion
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