Assessment for Learning!

Our philosophy for assessment for learning is based on upon an incremeental content delivery, and assessment model. We believe that after a3number of weeks of content delivery and teaching, students should be given some kind of agreed upon assessment that we call a tri-weekly and then for the most part, there are two major examinations: Easter and Summer Terminal Examinations.

Types of Assessment

Or focus, since the inception of our school, has been on Formative and Summative Assessment strategies. Our tri-weeklies, and the Easter Terminal Examinations up until recently, have been the center of Summative assessment methods. The purpose of the tri-weekly is to get students to strengthen their knowledge for the examination. We focus on corrective methods of feedback to ensure students are acquiring the necessary skills and knowledge for subject areas that they pursue. The Easter Terminal Examination is somewhat of a formative assessment, because students are given the opportunity of review their work and making the necessary adjustment to their learning patterns and to further gear up for the final assessment of the school year: The Summer Terminal. This Summer Examination, is final and will not be reviewed, but is an assessment that takes into account everything taught and learnt from the beginning of the year.

Testing and Measurement

Students in forms 1 - 4 are assessed as follows:

• Three (3) tri-weekly tests in Michaelmas Terms - September to December
• An Easter Terminal Examination (Just before Easter break of course)
• Two (2) Tri-Weeklies in the summer
• A Summer Terminal Examination

Students in Forms 5 - 6 are assessed as follows:

• Three (3) tri-weekly tests in Michaelmas Terms ( September to December.
• An Easter Terminal Examination (Just before Easter break of course)
• One (1) Tri-Weekly in the summer (Tri-Weekly-4)
• One Internal Assessment or School Based Assessment (per subject) for External Examinations

All tri-weekly tests are subsequently marked out of one hundred percent (100%), and finally average and moderated to weigh twenty percent of the the subsequent examination mark. See the table below.

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Assessment Example - Michaelmas and Easter Terms
Michaelmas Term				Easter Term
Tri-Weekly One	Tri-Weekly Two	Tri-Weekly Three	Tr-Weekly Average	20%	Easter Exam Mark	80%	Final Easter Mark
100	80	85	88.3	17.6	80	64	81.6

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Assessment Example - Summer Term
Summer Term
Tri-Weekly-Four	Tri-Weekly-Five	Average	20%	Summer Exam Mark	80%	Final Summer Mark
90	90	90	18	85	68	84

External Assessments

C.X.C. School Based Assessment, Internal Assessments and External Examinations

All students reaching the fourth form level, are expected to begin their journey to completing the CXC Certification Examinations. With this comes the School Based Assessment, which takes the form of the assignments the emphasize content being taught or that was taught. These assignments are graded based on CXC guidelines which are stated in the syllabus for that subject. The same holds true for lower and upper sixth form students.

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