Page 161 - Growing Success: Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting in Ontario Schools. First Edition, Covering Grades 1 to 12. 2010

GLOSSARY
155
Student Success teacher. A teacher who has the responsibility to support students who are at risk of not graduating. The Student Success teacher works with the principal, guidance counsellors,
and special education teachers to ensure the alignment of supports and services for these students. Boards are required to ensure that there is a Student Success teacher in each secondary school.
Student Success team. A team of teachers who have the responsibility for developing school procedures and models for the effective delivery of all Student Success initiatives. The team must include, at a minimum, a principal or designate, the Student Success teacher, a guidance counsellor, and a special education teacher.
student-teacher conference. A teacher’s planned dialogue with an individual student about the student’s learning. Conferences offer teachers opportunities to get to know their students’ strengths and the challenges they face in relation to specific learning strands or expectations, to monitor their progress, and to plan future instruction based on identified needs and interests.
students with special education needs. Students who have been formally identified as requiring special education supports and services by an Identification, Placement, and Review Committee (IPRC), as well as students who are not identified but who have an Individual Education Plan (IEP) and are receiving special education programs and services.
success criteria. Standards or specific descriptions of successful attainment of learning goals developed by teachers on the basis of criteria in the achievement chart, and discussed and agreed upon in collaboration with students, that are used to determine to what degree a learning goal has been achieved. Criteria describe what success “looks like”, and allow the teacher and student to gather information about the quality of student learning.
summative assessment. Evaluation that occurs at the end of important segments of student learning. It is used to summarize and communicate what students know and can do with respect to curriculum expectations.
teacher moderation. A process for ensuring that the assessment of student learning and the results of assessment and evaluation are comparable across classes and/or schools. In teacher moderation, teachers examine student work together to share beliefs and practices, enhance their understanding, compare their interpretations of student results, and confirm their judgements about a student’s level of achievement. Teachers might also look at the assignment that was given and analyse its effectiveness in relation to the learning achieved by the students.
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). An international, large-scale assessment conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement at various grade levels, including Grades 4 and 8, to determine the effectiveness of the teaching and learning of mathematics and science.
GLOSSARY