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Approaches to Teaching & Learning: Assessment

WAB Definition of Learning

Learning at WAB is a transformative process which is intentional and iterativechallenging and joyful and serves an authentic purpose.

Learning, teaching, and assessment effectively inform and influence one another.

NEASC ACE 2.0 Learning Principle 3: Evidence of Learning

Learners engage with feedback that promotes self-awareness, improvement, and mastery. Learners demonstrate growth and development in a variety of forms.

  • 3.1 Learners reflect on and document their learning relative to academic, creative, ethical, interpersonal, physical, and entrepreneurial goals. The school has systems in place for ongoing student reflection, goal setting, and acknowledgment of growth in all areas.
  • 3.2 Learners play a central role in determining areas of strength, areas for growth, identifying appropriate evidence of learning, and ways in which they will share their learning journey.
  • 3.3 Learners understand and can articulate the current state and progress of their learning.
  • 3.4 Formative and summative assessment activities are routinely used by students and teachers to synthesize learning and gain deeper insights into a student’s learning process.