How am I doing? AND How might I improve?

Students often want to know how they are doing. They expect the answer to that question to be in the form of a letter grade. If that grade is not what they hoped, the next question many students ask is: What can I do to bring up my grade?  With that question, most are looking for opportunities to make-up late work, to retake a test, or to do extra credit before a report card goes home. These questions are understandable.  Grades in school are how most of us measured our level of success. There is a better second question.  How might I improve?   Can a letter grade communicate an answer to that?  Probably not, but IB MYP assessment can.  The following video tutorial clarifies how MYP Criteria scores are transformed into a letter grade, while providing support in the use of ParentVue or Student Vue on Synergy. A future tutorial will help to explain how MYP assessment provides a clear answer to the second question through focused use of each subject’s MYP Criterion Rubrics.

The following icons are linked to Lakewood’s Assessment Policy and Grade Descriptors.  Both were referenced in the tutorial.