Our staff recently had a professional development day
regarding assessment, grading and evaluation. We discussed God’s good gift of assessment
practices. One of the most striking pieces
that day was looking at assessment, grading, and evaluation as a way to bless
and honour our students as learners. When doing this we look at those practices
with a growth mindset, wanting our students to master what is needed. In a mastery mindset we want our student to
value learning, not just getting it right or getting good marks. We desire for
our students to believe that effort leads to success not just ability. We desire for learners to believe that they have
the ability to improve and learn as we believe that all of our students can
learn and are born learners. A
performance or fixed mindset is concerned about being viewed as able and
proving themselves and gains satisfaction from doing better than others whereas
a growth mindset fosters the idea of success as personal success. A fixed mindset that is performance driven
shows more concern for proving competence than it does in improving
competence. We will continue to delve
into the specifics of comparing and contrasting these two mindsets in
assessment and refine our practices to shift towards growth and mastery. Progressing in growth towards mastery is what
we want for our students.
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