Feedback & Assessments

“The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things.”

— The Crown of Wild Olive, p. 43

 

“The question is not - how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education - but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? And, therefore, how full is the life he has before him?”

— School Education, p. 170-171

Purposes & Value

 

Purposes for Our Feedback & Assessments:

  1. To provide the parents and students with objective and subjective feedback that takes into account the whole person of the student

  2. To provide the parents and/or charter school teachers with multiple resources and tools for translating our terminology and feedback into a students’ semester subject grades

Peace Hill Values:

  1. Cultivating wisdom and virtue through knowing truth, pursuing goodness, and creating beauty

  2. Caring for the holistic formation of each student and equipping and inspiring the parents to do the same

Feedback Values:

  1. Looking at the whole story of the student

  2. Providing students with high expectations, high support and high love

  3. Providing multiple and varied opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning 

  4. Looking for patterns in student learning (their growth in understanding is more important than poor early learning, for example)

  5. Looking at current working level rather than averaging across the quarter

  6. Offering students with incomplete assignments opportunities for bringing their performance up to acceptable levels

  7. Communicating to students that they have responsibilities in school and their actions have specific consequences

  8. Prioritizing progress over perfection - learning is difficult and important, and students can’t be expected to “get it right” at every point, but instead step towards mastery

Feedback Criteria Categories:

  1. Learning objectives for specific subjects/classes

  2. Participation

  3. Opportunities to show what they know (narrations, tests, quizzes, papers, assignments, projects, presentations, drawings, etc.)

  4. Multi-directional quarterly feedback (oral and/or written feedback from the teachers, parents and students with space for students to reflect on their learning and choose their own growth areas to work on)

School-Subject Feedback Terminology: 

  1. Apprentice - Criteria mostly unmet

  2. Journeyman - Criteria mostly met

  3. Master - Criteria fully met