Assessment

Grades 1-5 IPC:

The IPC believes that both assessment and assessment for learning are important.

The IPC Assessment for Learning Programme:

- Identifies the key learning goals in eight subjects and international mindedness
- Provides rubrics for teachers that describe children’s performance in terms of beginning, developing and mastering
- Provides the same rubrics for children but in language specially written for them
- Provides advice for teachers and children on how to help children move from one level to the next
- Provides great whole-school software for noting and commenting on children’s progress

Grades 6-9 IBMYP:

Teachers are responsible for structuring varied and valid assessment tasks (including tests and examinations) that will allow students to demonstrate achievement according to the objectives for each subject group.

These include:

- Open-ended, problem-solving activities
- Investigations
- Organized debates
- Hands-on experimentation
- Analysis and reflection.

The school also makes use of quantitative and qualitative assessment strategies and tools that provide opportunities for peer- and self-assessment.

The recording and reporting of individual levels of achievement are organized in ways that provide students with detailed feedback on their progress as it relates to the assessment criteria for each subject group.