Evaluation and assessment

 

The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.

To this end the oransiation works with schools, governments and international organisations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment. These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.

A strong focus of our work around mental health and character skills comes from the reflections and experience of our teachers. It is through this experience that we work to ensure our students are developed to appreciate and embrace challenge.

As students begin their journey through the IB, they also begin the process of critical self-assessment. From year 7 our students begin working with MYP rubrics as they self assess their progress in each discipline before reflecting upon their self-assessment, alongside their subject leader, in order to reach a final summative grade.

Having this deep understanding of who and where they are in each subject area alongside being mentally prepared for challenge through our mental health focus, provides our students with a level of preparation, resilience, confidence in and appreciation for their current abilities which means they aren’t immobilised by fear of failure or getting things wrong.

This means they have a healthy attitude going into the final MYP assessments and are naturally motivated as they understand that getting qualifications is part of the process in enabling them to create their own choices for their future.

The MYP Assessment at age 16 requires students to undertake :

  • EA ssessment (online exams) in Language acquisition (Spanish), Language and literature, Individuals and Societies, Mathematics, Sciences and Interdisciplinary learning.

  • Submission of Digital Portfolios in Visual and Performing Arts, Design, Physical and Health Education.

  • Submission of Personal Project. The personal project formally assesses students’ approaches to learning (ATL) skills for self-management, research, communication, critical and creative thinking, and collaboration.

MYP eAssessment is purposely designed to reflect the flexible curriculum framework in the MYP. Its flexible nature means it effectively suits the wide variety of school contexts globally.

As an assessment for learning tool, it informs a student’s next steps in their education journey, builds their ability to apply their thinking to new situations, stimulates their learning of skills, and matches the three types of performances that suit a 21st century adolescent mind:

As an assessment of learning tool, it functions as a summative assessment to complete a middle school career with externally IB validated results. This is executed through a series of world-leading, innovative, digital assessments that both ensure a high standard of academically rigour, and inform learning, teaching and creative teacher professionalism.