Approved
by the decision of the AEO Board
«Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools»
dated January 5, 2023 (Minutes No. 1)
The Rule
for Criteria-Based Assessment of Students’ Achievements in “Nazarbayev Intellectual School of Astana” Autonomous Educational Organization “Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools”
1. General Provisions
1. The Rules for Criteria-Based Assessment of Students’ Achievements in “Nazarbayev Intellectual School of Astana” of Autonomous Educational Organization “Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools” (hereinafter the Rules) define the order of organization and administration of student achievements criteria-based assessment. 2. The following definitions are used in the Rules: 1) the International Baccalaureate (hereinafter IB) is an international non-profit organization which has consultative status in the European Council and implements educational programs for primary school (Primary Years Program), secondary school (Middle Years Program), high school (Diploma Program) and the program of professional education (Careers Program); 2) a grade – a number that characterizes the level of student’s academic achievement; 3) parallel grades – grades of same year of education; 4) the School Information System (hereinafter – SIS) is a school system that allows the school to keep track of the demographic and academic data of students, control the absence and lateness of students and teachers of the school, generates status reports and semester reports for students, and also promotes effective communication between students, teachers and parents through appropriate portals for each group; 5) assessment criteria – learning objectives, which are converted into criteria in order to determine the educational achievements of students based on the work performed. Objectives and criteria are set by the IB; 6) criteria-based assessment – the process based on the comparison of academic achievements of students with clearly defined criteria, established by the IB and known to all participants of education process (students, parents or other legal representatives); 7) formative assessment – assessment for learning, providing the student with feedback on the current level of knowledge and skills in the course of daily work to prepare students for the summative assessment; 8) summative assessment – assessment conducted to determine the level of knowledge and skills that students have developed by the end of the unit; 9) 7-point grading system – an assessment system required by the IB, according to which the level of achievements of the student is determined, and which is converted into a 5-point scale; 10) internal assessment – the assessment of the educational achievements of students according to the criteria established by the IB, which is conducted by the teachers of the Intellectual School; 11) external moderation is the process by which the IB verifies student performance grades assessed by teachers in the school to ensure that the IB criteria are applied correctly and standardized for students across all IB schools. This procedure is carried out by experts from the IB; 12) assessment standardization – the process of assessing student work by a group of teachers to standardize assessment in order to ensure objectivity and transparency of assessment; 13) subject guides – IB Guides for secondary and high school subjects that contain requirements and guidelines for curriculum development, teaching and subject assessment according to the goals, objectives and criteria that are also contained in these guides; 14) approaches to learning – lifelong learning skills that are aimed at developing communication, socialization, self-management, research and thinking skills; 15) International Baccalaureate Information System (hereinafter IBIS) is an electronic IB system, where online registration of students is carried out to participate in the electronic assessment of the Secondary School Program (MYP e-аssessment) and external assessment of high school. 16) provision of special conditions – organization and creation of conditions for students with special needs during the assessment period; 17) semester report – a report that is written at the end of each semester based on a 7-point grading system. Additional description is given in Appendix 3 to the present Rules; 18) status report – a report that is created in the middle of the semester for students who have the risk of getting a grade of 3 (satisfactory) in two or more subjects or one grade of 2 (unsatisfactory) on a 5-point scale at the end of the semester. Additional description is given in Appendix 3 to the present Rules; 19) general rules for the high school program (DP)/secondary school program (hereinafter – MYP) – a set of DP / MYP documents that define the requirements and describe the DP/MYP procedures and are approved by the IB; 20) MYP program is an IB program implemented at the school in grades 7-10; 21) interdisciplinary learning – learning in which two or more subject (s) groups are involved, based on common concepts, global contexts, subject content or problems, resulting in a common product, which is assessed on the basis of certain the IB criteria for interdisciplinary research; 22) personal project is a long-term project led by grade 10 students in which they demonstrate their experience in applying the global context and approaches to learning at MYP. The project begins in grade 9 and ends in grade 10, is externally moderated by the IB and is an IB requirement for all grade 10 students; 23) unit MYP – a planned group of lessons, in which topics, goals, global context, key and related concepts, statement of inquiry that determines the content, structure, types of tasks of formative and summative works are prescribed; 24) MYP criterion – a rubric describing the level of achievement of the MYP learning objective in a subject on a scale of 0-8; 25) MYP achievement level is a descriptor of the level that meets the criterion that best matches the achievement in the student’s work; 26) to exclude this point; 27) electronic portfolio (MYP e-portfolio) – an electronic form of accumulation of students’ works of secondary school students on computers or laptops, assessed within the school by subject teachers and samples that are sent for external moderation to the International Baccalaureate; 28) The IB MYP course results document is an official IB document that provides final grades in MYP subjects on a scale of 1-7 to all students who have been registered in IBIS to take results on e-Assessment; 29) High school Program (Diploma programme) (hereinafter – DP) – is a two-year IB program implemented in high school; 30) IB diploma – a document of education issued to students by the International Baccalaureate upon fulfilling the requirements set forth in paragraph 120 of the present Rules; 31) “Creativity, activity and service” (hereinafter referred to as CAS) is a component of the DP that provides the development of creative, social and communication skills of students in addition to academic subjects. This component is mandatory for obtaining an IB diploma; 32) Theory of Knowledge (hereinafter referred to as TOK) is a DP component that provides the development of students’ critical and analytical thinking skills. This component is mandatory for obtaining an IB diploma; 33) Extended Essay (hereinafter – EE) is a component of DP, research work on a chosen subject in the language of teaching, develops research skills and the ability to write essays in students. This component is mandatory for obtaining an IB diploma; 34) subjects of the standard level (SL), high level (HL) – the levels of studying the subjects; 35) external assessment is a type of assessing students’ work at the end of the DP program, which is developed and regulated by the IB; 36) external examination is a type of external assessment in DP, where IB provides and grades student exams at the end of the high school course; 37) examination grade is the result of external assessment; 38) the grade of internal assessment is a grade determined by the IB on the basis of the teacher’s assessment and external moderation of the International Baccalaureate; 39) DP grade is the grade that is exhibited in the student’s IB diploma; 40) the document with the results of the IB program is an official document of the IB, in which the final DP grades are provided to all students who have been registered with the IBIS to obtain a diploma; 41) predicted grade of the IB for high school – a predicted indicator of student performance of high school students on external assessment, which is loaded into the IBIS and not provided to students; 42) forecast grade for universities an average grade of student performance for a certain period of learning time with the aim of providing the universities with the information about the student achievement; 43) DP unit – a planned group of lessons which presents topics, tasks, connection with the TOK and intercultural understanding, as well as the main idea of the unit, which determines the content, structure, types of formative works and ascertaining works; 44) DP markscheme/gradescheme – a scoring scheme for a specific task based on examples from the IB; 45) The Committee for the final award of the IB Diploma program is the body of the IB, which makes the decision on the award of the diploma and gives the final marks; 46) Center for Pedagogical Measurements (hereinafter – CPM) – an external organization in relation to the School, which conducts external assessment of the examination materials of the external assessment created by the School on the subjects “Kazakh language acquisition”, “Russian language acquisition” and “History of Kazakhstan” as well as conducts external assessment on the subjects are subject to the UNT certificate; 47) external assessment the procedure of assessing the 12th grades on the subjects “Kazakh language acquisition”, “Russian language acquisition” and “History of Kazakhstan” which are not covered in the DP of the IB but are the mandatory to be covered in high school, created and regulated by the School; 48) certificate of graduation from secondary/high school – a document on education, which is issued to students after graduation from secondary/high school; 49) final attestation – a procedure carried out to determine the degree of mastering academic disciplines after graduating from secondary school; 50) report card – a student’s report document, which contains semester, annual and final grades for the current year; 51) external assessment in the subjects required for the UNT certificate – the procedure for assessing students in grades 12 in the subjects included in the UNT certificate; 52) IELTS external assessment is an international English language proficiency assessment system conducted by an authorized center.