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.