Assessment

Parents’ Guide to Understanding the MYP Assessment – A One-Pager

Introduction To help parents understand MYP assessment principles and practices, I created an MYP Assessment Guidance Handbook. Nevertheless, explaining MYP…

2 years ago

Use an Assessment Roadmap to Reduce Students’ Anxiety and Promote Student Agency

Introduction Assessment can be challenging, particularly when it seems you’re never quite sure when it’s going to come around. By…

2 years ago

Learning Loss? Lost Learning?

Concerns about learning loss Unplanned school closure resulting from the Covid-19 has impacted student learning physically, emotionally, socially, and academically.…

3 years ago

4 Report Writing Strategies & Sentence Starters

How to write an MYP Personal Project Report? Do your students find it difficult and not motivated to write their…

3 years ago

Developing Self-regulating Learners through a Systematic Formative Feedback Process

Why did I conduct this action research? Professor Hattie’s research emphasizes the learners’ engagement with the feedback process and its…

4 years ago

Reflective Writing Guide

This post is writing to introduce a reflection protocol: What? So What? Now what? to promote student reflection and critical…

5 years ago

GRASPS Assessment Design and Student Metacognition

The WHY of GRASPS assessment design GRASPS is a model advocated for by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe to guide…

5 years ago

Sanity-Saving Feedback Strategies

Feedback Principles Since we launched the Formative and Feedback Project at KIS in 2017, we received positive responses from teachers, students, and…

5 years ago

PYP to MYP Transition

Introduction The IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) and Middle Years Programme (MYP) are two of the four IB programmes offered…

6 years ago

IB Hong Kong Conference 2019

Developing self-regulated learners through teacher research and innovation  Rationales  KIS International School, together with the KIS community, developed a 5-year strategic…

6 years ago