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2.3 Assessment, Evaluation, and Reporting
Growing Success: Assessment, Evaluation, and Reporting in Ontario Schools
outlines the policies and practices for the assessment, evaluation, and reporting of the achievement of curriculum expectations and the development of learning skills and work habits for all students in Grades 1 to 12 in Ontario schools. The policy is based on seven fundamental principles designed to ensure that assess- ment, evaluation, and reporting practices and procedures:
✦✦ are fair, transparent, and equitable for all students;
✦✦ support all students, including students with special education needs, those
who are learning the language of instruction, and those who are First Nation,
Métis, or Inuit;
✦✦ are carefully planned to relate to the curriculum expectations and learning
goals and, as much as possible, to the interests, learning styles and preferences,
needs, and experiences of all students;
✦✦ are communicated clearly to students and parents at the beginning of the
school year or course and at other appropriate points throughout the school
year or course;
✦✦ are ongoing, varied in nature, and administered over a period of time to
provide multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate the full range of
their learning;
✦✦ provide ongoing descriptive feedback that is clear, specific, meaningful, and
timely to support improved learning and achievement;
✦✦ develop students’ self-assessment skills to enable them to assess their own
learning, set specific goals, and plan next steps for their learning.
The document clarifies policy related both to students’ demonstration of the learning skills and work habits (responsibility, organization, independent work, collaboration, initiative, self-regulation) and to their achievement of curriculum expectations. It provides a thorough outline of policy related to performance standards, to the role of assessment in the improvement of student learning,
to evaluation and reporting procedures, and to considerations pertaining to students with special education needs and students who are learning English. It also includes policies for reporting student achievement demonstrated through e-learning and the credit-recovery process.
Growing Success: Assessment, Evaluation, and Reporting in Ontario Schools – First Edition Covering Grades 1 to 12 (2010) www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/policyfunding/growSuccess.pdf
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