GRADING AND REPORTING

NEW K -12 GRADING SYSTEM

 

Components of
Summative Assessment

           ·           Written Work (WW)

           ·           Performance Tasks (PT)

           ·           Quarterly Assessment (QA)

Components	Purpose
Written Work (WW)	1.      Assess learners’ understanding of  concepts and application of skills 2.     Prepare learners for quarterly assessments

Components	Purpose
Performance Tasks (PT)	1.      Involve students in the learning process 2.     Give students opportunities to demonstrate and integrate their knowledge understanding and skills 3.     Give students the freedom to express their learning appropriate and diverse ways. 4.

Components	Purpose	When Given
Quarterly Assessment (QA)	1.      Synthesize all the learning skills, concepts and values learned entire quarter.	Once at the end of the quarter

Grading System

The K-12 Basic Education Program (BEP) uses a  standards-based and competency-based grading system.

All grades will be  based on the weighted score of the learners summative assessments.

The minimum grade to pass a specific learning area is 60, which transmuted to 75 in the Report Card.

Grading System

The lowest mark that can appear on the Report Card is 60 for Quarterly Grades and Final Grades

Learners from Grades 1 to 12 are graded on Written Work (WW), Performance Tasks(PT), and Quarterly Assessment (QA) every quarter.

These three are given specific percentage weights that vary according to the nature of the learning area.  

Weight of the components for SHS(Senior HS)

METHODS OF INTERPRETING THE RESULTS last:

1.      Norm-referenced Interpretation

Ø  Describes student’s performance or progress in relation to others of the same peer group, age or ability

Ø  May involve ranking or scaling a pupil to help with streaming classes

Ø  May look at cross-school achievements to compare achievement in particular groups, subjects and years wit local and national levels of attainment

Norm-referenced Interpretation

e.g.

Ø  Sam ranked 5^th in the unit test in Physics

Ø    Scion’s percentile rank in the Math achievement test is 88.

METHODS OF INTERPRETING THE RESULTS

2.     Criterion-referenced Interpretation-describes student performance according to a specified domain or clearly defined learning tasks e.g. divide three-digit whole numbers correctly and accurately, multiply binomial terms correctly

Ø  Concerned with national examination and other assessment bodies

Ø  Used in the assessment of vocational and academic qualifications

Ø  Results are given on a pass/fail,  competent/not competent basis

Ø  Results are conclusive and usually open to review

Criterion-referenced Interpretation

e.g.

Ø  Hyacinth scored 7 out of 10 in the spelling test
Ø    Ophie can encode an article with no more than 5 errors in spelling.

  


Reflection

         Grading and reporting in education is a system that is used to assess the educational performance of a child which is entirely based upon points alone. Grading system does not provide an opportunity to make the child to think out of the box or freely develop the thinking about any inkling of an idea or get involved with any of the intellectual speculation. it will just provide information that a student performs well or not. 
       It helps the teacher to identify whether the students performing well or not. It introduced the notion of measuring the students’ knowledge based on their internal assignments, projects, their answering ability in class and their overall performance in all the major examinations.The marks that were obtained in the exams are the indicator of whether a child is studying or not. 
        In the teacher's job, it will give information about how the students perform in class. If the students gets low marks, the students are surely having a hardtimes in learning. If the students has a high marks, the teacher's teaching strategies are effective.