The achievement chart identifies four categories of knowledge and skills.
The achievement chart is a guide for me to help make judgements about student work that are based on clear performance standards and on a body of evidence collected over time.
The achievement chart is designed to:
* provide a framework that encompasses all curriculum expectations for all grades and subjects represented in this document;
* guide the development of assessment tasks and tools (including rubrics);
* help teachers to plan instruction for learning;
* assist teachers in providing meaningful feedback to students;
* most importantly, provides various categories and criteria with which to assess and evaluate student learning, so teachers see, assess and evaluate the entire spectrum of a students'learning in each subject area
The Four Categories:
Knowledge and Understanding: Subject-specific content acquired in each grade (knowledge), and the comprehension of its meaning and significance (understanding).
Thinking: The use of critical and creative thinking skills and/or processes, as follows:
* planning skills (e.g., focusing research, gathering information, organizing an inquiry)
* processing skills (e.g., analysing, evaluating, synthesizing)
* critical/creative thinking processes (e.g., inquiry, problem solving, decision making, research)
Communication: The conveying of meaning through various forms, as follows:
* oral (e.g., story, role play, song, debate)
* written (e.g., report, letter, diary)
* visual (e.g., model, map, chart, movement, video, computer graphics)
Application: The use of knowledge and skills to make connections within and between various contexts