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Crosswinds International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme

An integral part of the MYP is assessment. Each required subject area has assessment tasks that must be used in assessing students each year. An advantage for students is that the MYP assessment tasks allow teachers to assess in many different ways – so it’s not all tests and stress!

Some of the assessment activities beyond tests you might take part in at Crosswinds could be:
  • Giving presentations or speeches using multimedia
  • Building models or projects that show what you have learned
  • Writing articles or essays that discuss how your subject relates to the news
  • Performing a play, musical demonstration or making a movie
  • Designing an ideal zoo or country
One of the most important parts of being assessed in the MYP is that students are graded for the quality of their individual work, not how they compare to other students in assessment.
  • Students are being assessed for personal improvement.
  • Students are not being put in rank order or compared to others.
  • Everyone has an equal opportunity to get the best grades.
  • With a range of different assessment activities, students are given more chances to demonstrate their learning.
Another essential part of the MYP is the criterion-based marking system.
  • The IBO produce descriptions of what MYP students should be able to do in each subject to obtain a certain grade.
  • Crosswinds teachers look at these descriptions and design assessment tasks that will allow students the opportunity to strive for the highest grade possible.
  • Teachers provide students with the rubric (a grid with the descriptions written on) for the MYP assessment task. This will allow students and parents to see – before the task is completed – exactly the requirements are to obtain the grade that most accurately reflects what each student has learned from the unit of study.
© International Baccalaureate Organization 2006