Ongoing Assessment

Every nine weeks in each class, students will complete two or more on-going assessment activities to demonstrate their learning and to ensure continuous student progress. Teachers are responsible for making sure that those activities:

1. Are aligned with the school’s curriculum documents, the Core Content for Assessment, and the Program of Studies.

2. Are valid and appropriate demonstrations of what students should know and be able to do.

3. Have clearly defined scoring guides that are shared with students prior to the assessment and reflect the appropriate levels of difficulty for the ages and developmental stages of learners. Assessments should require student to use inquiry, problem-solving and higher-order thinking skills to advance student learning to the proficient level.

4. Provide opportunities several times a year for students to choose among a variety of ways they can demonstrate learning, including options appropriate to preferred learning styles. Assessments should provide a variety of tasks (projects, writing tasks, culminating, events, and presentations requiring valid demonstrations of information learned). Teachers will used a variety of assessments that target the multiple intelligences and student learning styles. Assessments should be frequent and ongoing to be regularly analyzed to identify gaps in the curriculum and student learning.

5. Provide meaningful feedback to students including opportunities to reflect, self-evaluate, and strengthen their performance.

6. Whenever possible, be part of the regular learning process, with separate activities used only when imbedded ones are not feasible.

Evaluation of Performance Levels

• Throughout the year, based on ongoing assessments and observations, teachers and the administration team will discuss student performance.

• Through team meetings and/or faculty meetings, teachers will participate in the analysis of student work.

• Administration will monitor student performance through observations, walkthroughs, and review assessments.

• A nationally normed assessment will be used to measure annual progress of students. The Measures of Academic Performance (MAP) will be given throughout the year. Data will be shared with the council regarding overall student progress (percent meeting or above proficiency as a whole and by sub-groups).

Reporting of Performance Levels

• From ongoing assessments, teacher’s will make recommendations to the administration team on which students need extra assistance to help students reach maximum potential.

• The data from open responses and writing on demand will be utilized by administration to target students who are scoring novice and apprentice.

• MAP assessments scores will be given to administration and discussed with the staff/council.

Principal Responsibility

Within two weeks after each grading period ends, the principal or a member of the administration team will use the ongoing assessment data to create a report. This report will include the percent of students in each grade level at each performance level, with data from the entire grade. This report will be shared with the staff/council. These reports will be considered part of the school council’s School Improvement plan Implementation and Impact Checks. These reports will help identify the gaps with Meadow View’s student population so that needs can be clearly diagnosed and targeted.

Kentucky Performance Report will be analyzed to target curriculum gaps and instructional areas of improvement.

Policy Evaluation

We will evaluate the effectiveness of this policy through our School Improvement Planning Process.

Date Adopted: ___1-13-10_____

Date Reviewed or Revised: __________ council Chairperson’s Initials __________

Date Reviewed or Revised: __________ council Chairperson’s Initials __________