Year 8 Assessment Booklet 2017

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SENIOR SCHOOL ASSESSMENT POLICY
STATEMENT OF INTENT
This Senior School Assessment Policy details procedures to be followed for:
1. Tests/Examinations
2. Assessment tasks other than examinations
3. Late and non-submission of assessment items
4. Academic Honesty
5. ESL students and students with documented learning difficulties.
RELEVANT LEGISLATION AND POLICY
(Years 11 and 12 OP Course)
 Late and non-submission of student responses to assessment instruments in Authority subjects and
Authority-registered subjects
(page 5)
 Special Provisions for school based assessments in Authority subjects and Authority-registered
subject (page 7)
 Assessment: Policy and Guidelines; Subject area syllabus documents.
PRINCIPLES FOR ASSESSMENT TASKS
The following principles will inform Somerset College policy:
1. Evidence about student achievement will be gathered in a continuous process throughout the course
of the teaching, learning and assessment program.
2. Expectations of assessment instruments and due dates will be made clear to teachers, students and
their parents/guardians.
3. Procedures will be enacted consistently across subjects within the school in a fair and equitable
manner.
4. Processes will be put in place by the College to intervene in order to avoid cases of late and non-
submission.
Judgments of student responses will only be made:
1. Where there is student work to match with syllabus standards descriptors
2. Using syllabus standards / Diploma criteria/ MYP criteria
3. Based on evidence available on or before the due date
In cases of non-submission of student responses to assessment instruments, standards are not awarded
when there is no evidence
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