Assessing Student Learning and Growth

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Measuring and Analyzing Student Growth

If you checked "Other", please describe here:

To what degree do you agree or disagree with the following statements? Measuring student learning and growth:(Required)

	Strongly disagree	Disagree	Neutral	Agree	Strongly agree
Should evaluate student work against fixed criteria (e.g. rubric)
Should evaluate how students apply knowledge to new situations
Is assigning a grade to student work
Establishes what students have learned
Provides feedback to students about their performance
Helps students improve the way they learn
Should be integrated with teaching practice
Has little or no impact on the way I teach
Is generally not useful to me in improving my teaching

How satisfied and confident are you in how accurately you are able to measure student learning and growth?(Required)

For the following questions, reflect on the purpose of measuring student learning and growth:

What do you, personally, feel is the value of measuring student learning and growth?(Required)

How do you describe "accuracy" and what it means to you, in the context of measuring student learning and growth?(Required)

Describe, in your own words, the purpose behind incremental, ongoing evaluation of student learning and growth:(Required)

What other approaches do you use that are not on this list?(Required)

What are the top five tools/methods from the list above?(Required)

York School’s Learning Outcomes

Please review and reflect on the following York School Learning Outcomes.

Creative, Independent Thinkers: Students explore and evaluate multiple perspectives across a variety of curricular areas, demonstrate active listening, curiosity, and risk-taking, and discover and develop interests, passions, and purpose.

Effective Communicators: Students speak and write with precision and purpose for diverse contexts and audiences, express ideas and information compellingly and creatively, and practice empathy and collaboration.

Courageous Leaders and Problem Solvers: Students tackle complex problems to better understand the world and their place in it, cultivate personal integrity in order to be responsible leaders, and are action-oriented, seeking to effect positive change.

Global Participants & Community-Minded Citizens: Students practice cultural curiosity and flexibility, develop a nuanced and profound understanding of relevant issues and diverse cultures, and demonstrate active civic involvement and social responsibility.

For each of these Learning Outcomes, how confident are you in your ability to determine whether students are making progress towards becoming:(Required)

	Very confident	Confident	Somewhat confident	Slightly confident	Not at all confident
Creative and independent thinkers/communicators
Effective communicators
Courageous leaders and problem solvers
Global participants and community-minded citizens

Think of a student who you determined was making progress towards one of our York School Learning Outcomes. Towards which of the Outcomes did they make progress? How were you able to tell? Can you quantify or qualify the observational data you used to make this determination?(Required)

Feedback to Students

If you checked "Other", please describe here:(Required)

How confident are you that your feedback helps students improve their understanding?(Required)

Student Understanding

When you check a student’s work, how confident are you that you can tell that they really understand the material?(Required)

How do you determine when a student has demonstrated understanding of a concept or skill?(Required)

About York School's Approach

Considering the questions you've answered in this survey, how would you describe York School's approach to "student learning and growth assessment?"

How would you describe the strengths and gaps in York School's assessment approach?

Measuring and Analyzing Student Growth

For the following questions, reflect on the purpose of measuring student learning and growth:

Feedback to Students

Student Understanding

About York School's Approach

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