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Final Cumulative Assessment - A final cumulative assessment in high school is a comprehensive evaluation given at the end of a semester or academic year. It tests a student's retention, synthesis, and mastery of all priority standards taught throughout the semester.
Formative Assessment - Assessment for the purpose of learning and informing next steps in instruction. As a result of formative assessment, students receive feedback designed to improve current performance. Learners do not receive grades during formative assessment.
Grading Policies – Policies are board-approved regulations that have been read, reviewed, and passed by the members of the Greenfield School Board. Schools and teachers do not craft policies.
Grading Procedures – Grading procedures are standardized, school-wide systems that, in order to be fair, are uniform from classroom to classroom. This includes methods in semester grading, comparing student performance to clearly communicated course standards, and the use of rubrics that clearly define gradations of quality.
Grading Practices – School-wide grading procedures in assessing, grading and reporting must be clear and consistent. In addition, classroom teachers have practices they utilize to ensure sound assessment design and evaluation, clear gradebook setup, and tailored methods that explain how they provide and use feedback within their classroom and in electronic environments.
Level up or Upgrade – The practice put in place by students after an initial assessment in which students are given specific feedback and the opportunity to improve their work as it relates to a target, standard, or impact. Students use criteria from teacher-provided rubrics to guide enhancements.
Performance Assessment – An assessment in which a student has the opportunity to transfer their understanding and skills to a novel experience. Ideally, a performance assessment will be relevant to students, allow for student voice and choice, and also provide a real-world audience for their work.
Priority Standard - At other educational institutions this can be called a “power standard” or an “essential standard,” but in Greenfield we use “priority standard.” They identify what all students should be able to know, understand, and do in order to be successful in the course. Priority standards are chosen based on a combination of the ideas of endurance (the skill or information lasts far beyond a single test), leverage (applies in multiple school subjects), and readiness (it is prerequisite knowledge or skill for a next grade level or course).
Progressive Average - This is a grading method that gives more weight to recent work and less weight to past scores, focusing on what a student knows right now rather than how they started. In mathematical terms, this would actually be called “decaying average,” and we are choosing to use the term “progressive average” because it meets the philosophy of grading we are aligned with. Video explaining Progressive Average
Instead of treating every test or assignment from day one equally, older grades slowly fade in importance as a student progresses and improves. This method rewards growth, perseverance, and reflects current mastery, all of which align with the GHS philosophy of grading. The GHS rate of progression is 0.5, so the most recent assessment will count for half of the standard’s score, and all the prior assessments in that standard will weigh progressively less.
Rubric - An established set of criteria for scoring or rating students’ performance on performance-based assessments, portfolios, writing samples, labs, simulations, scenarios, or other performance tasks Standard - The expectation a student must meet in order to meet the criteria for success.
Success Criterion/Criteria – A success criterion (plural = criteria) describes the expected degree to which the learner must reach in order to be successful in the learning expectation. When quality is expected (vs. simple completion), success criteria are written using qualitative language designed to indicate levels of performance.
Summative Assessment - The final evaluation of the degree to which the goals and objectives of a program have been attained. The result of a summative assessment is most often in a level, grade or other mark.
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