Year 8 Assessment Booklet 2020

SENIOR SCHOOL ASSESSMENT AND ACADEMIC INTEGRITY POLICY Parent/Carer Responsibilities • Encourage students to be present for all tests/examinations and to submit all drafts and final assessment instruments by the due date; • Inform the appropriate staff of any difficulties concerning the completion of assessment items and provide documentary evidence. All final decisions are at the Principal’s discretion. All assessment evidence, including draft responses, will be submitted by their due date and where appropriate, via the College’s academic integrity software. Timely submission of assessments is essential. Timely submission of assessment is considered to be by 8.00am on the day it is due by electronic submission via ‘ Schoolbox’(MYP) or Turn-it-in (QCE and IB Diploma) . A hard copy will be due in class on the due date or if there is no class then handed to the teacher before school. The work (even if incomplete) will be marked, commented upon, and credited towards the student’s semester result. As a first step, a Progress Check or Draft is compulsory for all items of work. Each subject will give students clear due dates for the draft. This draft is important, as it will serve as the final piece of work if a student should fail to hand in their final copy. Non- submission of progress checks or drafts will mean that parents will be notified by email and students will be required to complete this in their next scheduled lesson. For predominantly non-written pieces of assessment, e.g. orals and multi modals, the due date for written support material and hard copies to be submitted will be 8.00am on the first day of presentation. Unless otherwise organized by the class teacher, students must be ready for presentation in class on the due date. In cases where students do not submit a response to an assessment instrument by the due date, judgments will be made using evidence available on or before the due date. If, through non-submission of assessment, a student does not provide this evidence, a judgment cannot be made. This may mean a student has not met the mandatory requirements of the curriculum and the student, parent/carer and relevant authority may need to be notified that no result for that subject will be available. For IB Diploma and QCE, Draft and final responses for all internal assessment will be collected and stored in each student’s folio. Live performance assessments will be recorded and stored as required. All evidence used for making judgments is stored as required by the College. In the MYP, marked assessment pieces are returned to students to support future learning. Students may place this in their MYP Portfolio of Achievement. This portfolio should: • contain learning highlights • cover the full range of the curriculum subjects • be up-dated at semester/yearly intervals • reflect the development of wider personal and social achievements Assessment instruments will provide information about Somerset College’s arrangements for submission of draft and final responses, including due dates, conditions and file types.

Submitting, collecting and storing assessment information

• include evidence of progress over a period of time • be available to students, teachers, parents/carers

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