The Social Studies Department practices Standards-Based Assessment, using rubrics based on the Curricular Competencies.\u00a0 What does that mean?<\/p>\n
The Curricular Competencies<\/strong> are a list of skills and abilities that the Ministry of Education deems necessary for success in a given course.\u00a0 These competencies are taught in conjunction with course content that can be used to teach those skills and abilities.\u00a0 Teachers may focus on different content pieces from the ministry list but all teachers must cover all of the curricular competencies for a given course.\u00a0 There are common themes for all Social Studies courses:<\/p>\n The rubrics used in the Social Studies Department at Alpha assess these competencies.<\/p>\n Standards-Based Assessment<\/strong> attempts to clarify the desired outcomes for student learning by clearly stating what a student can do<\/em>, and\u00a0what a student needs to do to get better.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>If a student brings home a test that has a mark of 42\/60, it tells you that they were able to recall about 70% of the information that the teacher wanted them to know.\u00a0 It does not tell you what the student can actually do, and what they have learned to do in class.\u00a0 The mark of 42\/60 also doesn’t tell you what the student needs to do to get a higher mark, only that there is 30% more that a student can achieve. Final marks will look at what a student has been able to demonstrate throughout the class.\u00a0 This does not necessarily mean that all marks are averaged or that all competencies are worth the same amount.\u00a0 Teachers may take many things into account when determining a final grade such as what a student has done most recently, what a student has been able to do most consistently, or if a student has been able to demonstrate consistent growth in a particular area.<\/p>\n The following is a list of Standards-Based Assessment Rubrics that our department uses:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Social Studies Department practices Standards-Based Assessment, using rubrics based on the Curricular Competencies.\u00a0 What does that mean? The Curricular Competencies are a list of skills and abilities that the Ministry of Education deems necessary for success in a given course.\u00a0 These competencies are taught in conjunction with course content that can be used to … Continue reading “Assessment and Evaluation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6530,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-socialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-socialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-socialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-socialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-socialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-socialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-socialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-socialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\nStandards-Based rubrics also help students see where they need to go to improve.\u00a0 The language in the rubrics is clear about what students have demonstrated in each of the standards.<\/p>\n\n
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