Assessment as Part of an Integrated Approach to School Improvement 4. Assessment must be part of an integrated system of instruction, professional development, and refinement of a school's operations. Assessment should not be used only for ranking or sorting. Schools should use the results of assessment to modify instruction and help plan in-service. Language Proficiency 5.
Assessment takes into account a student's language proficiency.
If some of the school's students come from homes where English is not spoken, or if the student comes from some other linguistic background, the assessement practices take this into account. The assessment system actually measures what students know, regardless of their disability or linguistic background. All Students are Assessed 6. The school reports, in some ways, on the academic growth of all students. Valuable Criteria Assessment uses an outside person or persons to help judge student work.