Classroom tests, as well as the mid-year and final examinations, are
considered teaching tools rather than ranking devices. Certain subject
fields, especially those requiring problem solving as mathematics and some
sciences (physics, chemistry), lend themselves to routine, regularly scheduled
classroom tests; other may have tests related to completion of units of
study.
Consistency in giving classroom tests necessarily depends upon an overall
plan, preferably worked out by the individual teacher with the department
chairman. Such a plan should be coordinated with the homework assignment
plan and the overall learning approach should be known in its general outlines
to each student.
Students who have missed classroom work and perhaps homework assignments
due to excused absences of the usual type should make-up work shortly after
return to class. It is properly done at the convenience of the teacher,
and once scheduled takes precedence over all other activities in which the
student may be involved.
All students are expected to make up all missed instruction.
Current practice codified 1988
Adopted:
5/7/90
CROSS REFS.:
Homework (IKB)
Testing Programs (IL)