Assessment and Evaluation
Math AQ
Growing Success
The Seven Fundamental Principles
To ensure that assessment, evaluation, and reporting are valid and reliable, and that they lead
to the improvement of learning for all students, teachers use practices and procedures that:
• are fair, transparent, and equitable for all students;
• support all students, including those with special education needs, those who are learning the
language of instruction (English or French), and those who are First Nation, Métis, or Inuit;
• are carefully planned to relate to the curriculum expectations and learning goals and, as much
as possible, to the interests, learning styles and preferences, needs, and experiences of all students;
• are communicated clearly to students and parents at the beginning of the school year or course
and at other appropriate points throughout the school year or course;
• are ongoing, varied in nature, and administered over a period of time to provide multiple
opportunities for students to demonstrate the full range of their learning;
• provide ongoing descriptive feedback that is clear, specific, meaningful, and timely to support
improved learning and achievement;
• develop students’ self-assessment skills to enable them to assess their own learning, set specific
goals, and plan next steps for their learning.
(Growing Success, p. 6)
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Process Expectations
Van De Walle on assessment...
“…the line between assessment and instruction should be blurred. Teaching with problems allows us to blur that line. Assessment need not look different from instruction.”
- Van de Walle, 2006