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The purpose of assessment in educational
settings is to measure student understanding, knowledge
and skills, as well as the overall effectiveness of the
educational program in meeting student needs. In
that spirit, the Blind Brook faculty design a range of
assessments for their courses to be an integral part of
a classroom experience that is relevant and challenging
for all students.
The faculty strive to create fresh
challenges each year to invigorate their course work in
the context of a State-mandated core curriculum of content
and skills that must be addressed. This
mandated core is embedded into each course’s local
assessments in order to maintain alignment with NYSED Standards
and assessments and to maximally improve student learning
and performance.
Parents are important in the learning
process, and faculty share parents’ interest in and desire for their children’s
growth and success. Effective communication between
home and school is the cornerstone of this partnership; information
on each child’s development and academic progress shared
with parents in a timely manner is the essence of effective
communication. One of the best examples of this communication
is when parents and teachers sit down together to review
a student’s performance on tests and quizzes. This
conversation enables parents to understand the context of
the assessment, to better assist their children to close
the gaps or clarify the misunderstandings in their knowledge,
as well as preparing them for mid-term and final exams.
The Board of Education has authorized the Superintendent
of Schools to develop the protocols of a Test Return Policy
to maintain a challenging educational environment and strengthen
the home-school partnership:
Parents/persons in parental relation shall
receive information on the development and academic progress
of their children in a timely manner. In order to ensure that parents are
able to work with the school to assist pupil’s in closing
gaps and clarifying the misunderstandings in their knowledge,
the school’s obligation to provide such information shall
include providing access to tests, quizzes, and projects or
papers.
Access shall include parents’ having
copies of the tests and papers in question which shall be
sent home within a reasonable period of time and be permitted
to be used at home to allow parents to assist students in
preparation for the next regularly scheduled test, paper
or project as well as for mid-term and final examinations.
Teachers may require that tests and papers
be returned with a parental signature as a way of ensuring
that parents have seen the work and are keeping track of
a student’s progress.
This policy does not include mid-term and
final examinations which the district reserves the right
to hold secure and such work that state regulations prohibit
from being shared i.e. Regents Science Laboratory Reports.
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Adopted 09/12/05 |
