Assessment and Evaluation in Senior School

Our adherence to Growing Success from JK- Grade 8 ensures that we are preparing students for Grade 9. The same quality that ensures a successful inspection for the OSSD granting status is also applied to the quality of assessment and evaluation activities for JK-Grade 8.

The primary purpose of assessment and evaluation is to improve student learning. InnovOak School believes that such improvement necessarily requires:

• Practices and procedures that are fair and transparent

• Practices that support all students (including those students who speak English as a Second Language and those students with Individual Education Plans)

• Proactive communication with parents that ensures that parents understand curricular achievement charts, including levels of achievement (limited, some, considerable and high degree or thorough), categories of achievement (knowledge and understanding, thinking, communication and application), and demonstrations of achievements (observations and student products)

• An effective cheating and plagiarism prevention and intervention policy. Applicable regulation(s): Growing Success (Ontario 2010)