Jaiyana Samji/staff reporter
This year, Gleneagle’s assessment week will be held at the end of January during the week of the 23 – 27. During this week, all grade 10 and 12 students will be required to come into school on their directed dates to write an assessment. Grade 10 students will be required to write both the literacy and numeracy 10 assessments, and grade 12 students will be required to write the literacy 12 assessment.
Tanya Dissegna, vice principal, will be overseeing the assessment.
“I will have two bulletin boards set up in the foyer, well before the semester turnaround,” said Dissegna.
One of the bulletin boards will be for students with math or English in the first semester and the other will be for students with these classes in the second semester. Students will be able to find their names under their class to see when and where they will be taking the assessments. The assessment will be written with their English or math class even though the assessments are not tied to the English or math departments.
All students will be taking the assessment in January and will have the opportunity to rewrite them in the future if desired.
During assessment week there is more happening than just the numeracy and literacy assessments, the time will also be used for the international assessments, the grade 8 walkabout, and an opportunity for any students with missing work to come in and complete their assignments before report cards come out the following week.
As of now, UBC is the only university who requires a three or higher on the literacy 12 assessment to be accepted into their school.
“No other universities to my knowledge in the country, the province, or even the world seems to be interested in what happens in the lit 12 assessment” states Dissegna
Despite the assessment not having any weight on student’s grades, many students including Barsin Awali, Grade 10 and Ella Kwon, grade 12 are still nervous for the assessments.
Awali is nervous for the assessments but hopes she will do okay. In preparation for the assessments, Awali plans to go over everything she’s learned so she can hopefully do her best.
“I will practice a lot and treat it like a normal test” said Awali
Kwon is also nervous, but she feels that if she studies a lot and the questions aren’t too hard, she will do well.
In preparation for the assessments Dissegna recommends that students take a practice test so that they will feel more prepared and won’t be as nervous.
The numeracy assessment includes a lot of language which Dissegna feels is very important not only in the assessment but in all work students do.
“Our youth, our students, are people of the future, and they will be faced with real world problems that are most often given to them in explanatory form,” added Dissegna