What are Scoring Keys?

What are Scoring Keys?

Scoring keys are the way we help you evaluate your student over the term. There are four levels of evaluation, from worst to best for Grades 1-8:

  • NSGE – Needs Improvement, Satisfactory, Good & Excellent
  • DCBA – Conventional grade lettering
  • 1234 – Numeric scoring from 1 (lowest) to 4 (highest)

The Kindergarten scoring key is a little different as it is based on a different reporting standard.

Deciding whether or not the student has demonstrated a strength or need for each one of the overall expectations is the evaluation component of the report.

The focus of the overall expectation is derived from whether you wish to include one, two or three category focusses; Key, Growth or a Next Steps in Learning. You may include all three or remove the category that you don’t want to include in the report.

  • Key in Learning
  • Growth in Learning
  • Next Steps in Learning

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