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Assesment Process - TBD

An assessment checks how a student is performing academically.  Assessment in PEMS are used to track how the school's academic program is delivering results.  Where many schools simply track the performance level of a student, PEMS tracks performance improvements.  PEMS is a system that monitors how the school is functioning in such a way that the school can constantly improve.

The key contributors to student performance are as follows:

  • Curriculum - did the curriculum, or Moodle course, provide a net improvement in academic scores.
  • Engagement - did the student complete the course as planned.
  • Program - does one set of courses provide better or worse outcomes than another set.

PEMS makes no assumptions about how the three factors above contribute to student academic performance.  Certainly these factors are interrelated, a student that engages more in the course will most definitely show greater improvement.

Programs are created in the PEMS as a set of classes the student takes over a few years. Program placement, or the readiness of a student to complete the program is critical to tailoring a program to a desired outcome.

Curriculum is created in Moodle, courses may differ in their level of intensity, once course may require more writing, another may only provide auto-graded quizzes.  Key

Engagement is multifaceted, it includes the course gradethe time the student spend on the course,

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