SCAS - Current Students - Evaluation Policy

Evaluation Policy

Students are to be provided with a course of study including the overall curriculum expectations, the units and explanations of the assessments and evaluations as they pertain to the curriculum.
All students are to receive frequent assessments and evaluations throughout the term.
70% of the final grade will be based on ongoing evaluations.
30% of the final grade will be based on a final evaluation or culminating activities administered toward the end of the course.

Late assignments may be accepted after the due date until an “Ultimate Deadline” date (the day the graded evaluation is returned) and 10% may be deducted from the total mark.
Assignments completed after the ultimate deadline date will not be accepted if the student would be advantaged by viewing a marked assignment.
At the teachers’ discretion, a student may be given the opportunity to complete a make–up evaluation.
Quizzes are useful for assessment purposes. There are no opportunities to write missed quizzes.
For missed final (summative) evaluations, the student will provide to the Vice Principal(s) the appropriate medical or legal documentation, otherwise a mark of zero will be given.

Plagiarism is defined as presenting someone else’s words and ideas as one’s own.

Types include:

submitting work written by someone else, e.g., an essay from a website, or by another student.
Piecing together material from one or several sources and adding only linking sentences.
Quoting, copying, pasting or paraphrasing published material, without citing the source.
Not providing quotation marks for direct quotations when sources have been cited.

When plagiarism is detected, the following process will be followed:

No marks shall be deducted or awarded for effort, co-operation, and punctuality. These are recognised in the Learning Skills categories.
For group work, each student in the group shall receive an individual evaluation.
Students shall have access to their current marks and how they were calculated.
Discussion of marks with the teacher shall occur at a mutually agreed upon time.
By mid term (Day 23) teachers shall inform students of their academic progress.
Day 26 in any Quad represents the last day of disclosure for senior level courses (11 & 12). Grades for courses dropped after this date will appear on the student’s record.