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Middle School Assessment Procedure
Middle School Assessment Procedure Definitions
School assessment involves teachers
An assessment is one where normally at least one week’s
gathering, describing or quantifying
warning has been given and/or the score contributes a
information about student performance significant part of the final grade. Teachers will have and achievement.
indicated to students prior to the beginning of a unit of
Assessment tasks include tests, essays,
study the tasks that are to be included for assessment. In
examinations, reports, case studies,
Years 11 and 12 this information is usually also provided in
investigations, exhibitions, productions,
the Assessment Outline for the subject that is provided to
performances, oral or audio-visual
all students at the beginning of the year.
presentations and demonstrations. Homework is study completed at home by students and Reporting refers to the process of
as such is an integral part of the student’s learning
passing on information relating to
program. Teachers set meaningful activities to extend,
student achievement through both
enhance and/or provide practice to reinforce the learning
interim and semester reports that are
at school, to aid revision and assist in studying for tests
provided to parents.
and examinations.
Assessment: Definitions and Consequences The following definitions of breaches of assessment task reliability are followed by appropriate penalties for these breaches:
Assessment Breach
Consequence
Cheating
If cheating on an assessment task is established beyond reasonable doubt, the student is penalised. The penalty is a other student, exchanging of information mark of zero for both the person cheating and the person allowing the use of his material. Students will also be issued a before, during and after an assessment. detention and a record placed on their file. This will also impact This also includes copying the work of on a student’s Good standing status.
Gaining an unfair advantage over any
others.
Plagiarism Presenting student work, which has been copied without acknowledging the source or work which paraphrases/summarises the work of others is plagiarism. Collusion Submitting work that is not purely a student’s own, either with or without the assistance of another student, family member or external tutor, and claiming it to be their own work.
Middle School Assessment Procedure
The student who copies, paraphrases or summarises the work of others without acknowledging the source and presents this work as their own is penalised. The penalty is a mark of zero for the plagiarised piece of work. Students will also be issued a detention and a record placed on their file. This will also impact on a student’s Good standing status. If colluding on an assessment task is established beyond reasonable doubt, the student is penalised. The penalty is a mark of zero for both the person submitting the work and the person assisting in the collusion, if a student at the College. Students will also be issued a detention and a record placed on their file. This will also impact on a student’s Good standing status.