Our Philosophy
Evaluation for learning is the core of our philosophy. Evaluation is crafted to help students identify where their learning needs to be improved and concepts consolidated. Students who feel that they require more help are encouraged to attend remediation periods with their teacher
Evaluation
The weighting for the terms is the same for all courses.
Term 1: 20%
Term 2: 20%
Term 3: 60%
Courses with Uniform Exams (Secondary 4 Math, Secondary 4 Science, Secondary 4 History, Secondary 5 English Language Arts and Secondary 5 French Second Language) have a mandated Ministry Exam in June. These uniform exams are theoretically worth 50% of the final mark (see below Courses with Uniform Exams for more information).
Reporting on Student Assessment:
For the 2023/2024 school year there will be 1 written communication, and 3 report cards.
The written communications will give a general picture of your child’s learning and behaviour, but will not include any specific marks. These communications will be available to download from the Mozaïk Parent Portal on October 13, 2023.
The report cards will follow the three Terms and will be available to download from the Mozaïk Parent Portal on November 20, 2023, February 6, 2024 and before July 8, 2024.
In addition to ongoing teacher communication, guardians will be notified if their child is in danger of failing one or more competencies prior to the end of the term.
The following courses have government mandated exams.
Secondary 4 Math
Secondary 4 History
Secondary 4 Science
Secondary 5 English Language Arts
Secondary 5 French Second Language
The Ministry requires the above courses to terminate in a cumulative uniform exam. These exams are prepared at the government level by teachers from both the English School Boards and the French Service Centres across Québec.
Ministerial examinations are administered at the same time to all eligible Québec students. Students must be present for these exams.
Processing of Results
For each course with a uniform examination, the student’s final mark is determined by taking into account the result on the uniform examination and the result assigned by the teacher for terms 1, 2 and 3.
The Ministry may adjust the results of certain uniform examinations using a procedure called “conversion.” Moreover, the Ministry will systematically adjust school marks using a process called “moderation.”
The Ministry performs these operations to ensure fair treatment for all Québec students and to guarantee the value of the diplomas it issues.
Conversion
In the interests of fairness, the Ministry endeavours to prepare examinations of comparable difficulty from one year to the next.
Despite the precautions taken during the development of the examinations, the Ministry may have to convert marks. Conversion involves raising all the scores of an examination slightly to arrive at a comparable failure rate among the various cohorts, in the interests of fairness.
Moderation
School marks are taken into account in determining the final mark for a course with a uniform exam. These local school marks may vary considerably from school to school and from class to class. As a means of minimizing local variation, the Ministry uses a process of moderation whereby the marks obtained on the uniform examination are used to “moderate” the local school marks.
When the Ministry uses moderation, it compares, for each class, the school marks and the ministerial examination marks. Using a statistical procedure, the distribution of the school marks for each class is changed so that they are consistent with the marks obtained on the uniform examination by this class, according to the mean and the standard deviation (that is, the dispersion of marks around the mean).
Moderation involves adjusting each student’s school mark upward or downward. It cannot however, result in the failure of any student who has obtained a pass mark on the uniform examination.
For this reason, the school marks documented on the June report card for courses with uniform government exams, are approximated only.
The Final Mark
The final mark is determined by adding the moderated school mark to the converted exam mark. Thus, the Moderated School Mark 50% + the Converted Uniform Exam Mark 50%
Here you will find information regarding the evaluation plans, class expectations, learning materials, and course summaries for classes offered at Phoenix.