Assessment

We feel that assesment should reflect far more that the performance of skills.We wanted to create an assessment tool that would foster learning in all domains. Assessment should motivate students to enhance their knowlege, motor skills and promote positive behaviours towards dance.  In order, motivate students to adopt a positive attitude towards learning, rather thatn just performance, we feel that the following criteria is crucial in doing so. Furthermore, we feel that it is also in accordance with both the BC IRP and our own personal Philosophy.

-initial questionnaire	10%
-attendance	10%
-participation	10%
-spirit of the dancer	10%
-peer evaluations	10%
-improvements on psychomotor skills, from entry level to exit level (not just on exit dance level )	20%
Teacher overall evaluation of student cognitive, physchomotor and affective learning (improvement)	30%
Total:	100%

 
*** Students should be aware of the assessment criteria
        They should also have the opportunity to see how they were evaluated at the end of the unit.