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Assessment & Reporting Assessment As part of our Educational Continuum we use frequent assessments to monitor your childs’ development and progress. The main purposes of such assessment are to:
• Enables parents to understand more about their child as a learner and strategies that enhance his/her development.
• Promote student learning. Assessment provides an opportunity for students to respond to and act upon the feedback they are given. • Provide feedback related to planning and teaching in order to inform the next stages of learning: - Assessing, teaching and learning are directly linked and function purposefully together. - Authentic assessment engages students and encourages them to take responsibility for their own learning. • Evaluate effectiveness of our curriculum and program. Assessment assists in curriculum review cycles and program action plans Throughout each school day and week, we gather data on learning for each child. Our assessment principles, practices, tools and strategies are detailed in our comprehensive Assessment Policy. This data is regularly shared with each child and their parents to ensure we encourage a collaborative approach to learning. Assessment at Whitby: • Empowers students to understand more about themselves as learners and to become reflective and active members in the learning process. • Enables teachers to understand more about their students’ strengths and challenges and plan appropriate, differentiated learning opportunities to meet those needs.
Reporting Reporting on assessment is about communicating what students know, understand and can do. It describes progress in a child’s learning, identifies areas of strengths as well as areas of growth, and indicates goals for the future learning process. At Whitby, effective reporting: • Involves parents, students and teachers as partners. • Reflects the values and beliefs of the school community. • Is clear and transparent. • Is comprehensive, fair, honest and credible. • Informs teaching and learning. During the school year, each student and parent will be frequently included in the sharing of assessment data. Parents can expect to gain information about their child’s learning progress through the following reports:
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