Assessment Skills

Assessment skills are qualitative phrases that describe a measurement of student performance. Assessment grade plans reply on assessment skills to determine what skills are associated with courses.

To get started:

  1. From the persona menu, select Academics.

  2. Select Grades, then Grading setup, then Assessment skills.

The Assessment skills list contains all assessment skills across all grade plan groups. Assessment skills are reusable, and each instance of an assessment skill is represented in the Grade plan group column. The Type column is populated based on the group that the assessment skill is added to within a grade plan.

Mastery skill equivalents

If your school uses Competency Based Education, a mastery skill equivalent can be set up for each of your assessment skills. The mastery skill equivalent can be a transferable skill or sub-skill, or a content-area skill or sub-skill.

While assessment skills can be included on report cards, mastery skills cannot. Setting a mastery skill equivalent for an assessment skill allows the mastery skill rating in a teacher's gradebook to be pulled in as a grade for the corresponding assessment skill so that it can be included on report cards.

  • An assessment skill can only have either a transferable skill equivalent or a content-area skill equivalent, not both.

  • A mastery skill can only be selected as the equivalent for one assessment skill.

  • Both mastery skills and sub-skills are available to be selected as equivalents.

  • If an assessment skill is mapped to a parent transferable skill or parent content-area skill, the sub-skills under the parent are averaged.

Teachers pull their mastery skill ratings from their gradebook into assessment skill grades using the Calculate option in Grading. For more information, see Grading - Faculty Perspective.

Tip: For a tutorial on setting up grading at your school, see The Guide to Grading Setup.

  1. Select New skill.

  2. Enter a Description (for example, "Counting by fours," "Shares with others," "Contributes to class discussions").

  3. New skills default to Active. If you're not ready to use a skill, deselect Active.

  4. Optional: If your school uses Competency Based Education, search for and select a Mastery skill equivalent for this assessment skill.

    Tip: In the search results, skills display Transferable skill or Content-area skill. Sub-skills display Associated transferable skill or Associated content-area skill.

  5. Select Save & Close or Save & Add Another.

  6. The assessment skill is now available to be added to an Assessment grade plan within School Year Setup.

To change the information displayed in the Assessment skills list, select Columns, make your selections, and then Apply changes.

To narrow down the list, select the Filter icon. You can filter the list by Status and Assessment type option. Select Apply filters when you have made your selections.

To download the list of assessment skills as a CSV spreadsheet file, select Export. The file will save in your internet browser's download folder.

Data managers can import new assessment skills and update existing assessment skills via Grading Data Import.

Tip: Use Export to export the assessment_skill_id needed to update existing assessment skills via import and Export in Content-area skills list and Transferable skills list to export the mastery skill information necessary when mapping new or existing assessment skills to mastery skills via import.