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AL FARIS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
FIS GUIDE TO MYP
EASSESSMENTS
AY 2020 – 2021
Table of Contents
From the Owner/Director 2
IB MYP Certificate & Course Result Requirements 3
IB MYP Certificate 3
IB MYP Bilingual Certificate 3
IB MYP Course Results 3
Community Service Requirements 3
Deadlines & Fees 4
A Description of MYP eAssessments 5
On-Screen Examinations 5
ePortfolios 6
Personal Project 7
Grading MYP eAssessments 8
May 2021 Examination Schedule 9
1
From the Owner/Director
Dear Parents,
I’d like to welcome you to another fantastic school year! FIS has a dedicated and passionate
faculty, supportive parents, and creative, energetic students. This year is an integral year for
MYP Year 5 students as they will have a chance to obtain an official IB MYP Certificate or IB
MYP Course Results. Both of these are formal qualifications offered by the International
Baccalaureate® Organization. In order to obtain either of these qualifications, Year 5 students
need to complete a set of MYP eAssessment strategies, which include on-screen external
examinations, ePortfolios, and the personal project.
MYP eAssessments provide students with external, international recognition of their
achievement. On-screen external examinations are sent to schools by the IBO, and once
students complete these examinations, they will be sent back to the IBO and marked by external
examiners. As for ePortfolios and the personal project, although these eAssessments will be
marked by FIS staff members, they are then sent to the IBO for moderation (i.e. external
examiners will go over how FIS staff members marked these assessments to ensure they have
been marked rigorously). This process provides a guarantee to teachers, students, and parents
that results achieved in MYP subjects have been confirmed by a process of external validation
according to international standards.
This guide contains information on the type of eAssessments and how Year 5 students can
obtain an IB MYP Certificate or IB MYP Course Results. Our MYP Coordinator, Mrs. Salwa
Ghandour, will guide teachers, students, and parents throughout this academic year concerning
any inquires or issues pertaining to the MYP eAssessments.
I look forward to yet another successful year, and I wish you and your families the best in
all your endeavors!
Sahar Al Marzouki
Owner/Director
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IB MYP Certificate & Course Results Requirements
IB MYP Certificate
Year 5 students must complete the following requirements in order to obtain an IB MYP
Certificate:
• Five external on-screen examinations (language & literature, mathematics, science,
individuals and societies, and interdisciplinary learning)
• One ePortfolio from a course of study in language acquisition (i.e. French)
• One ePortfolio from a course in design
• The personal project
• Meeting our school’s expectations for community service
IB MYP Course Results
As for IB MYP Course Results, this qualification applies to students who register for some of the
on-screen examinations and/or ePortfolio eAssessments. Students registering for this
qualification need to also complete the personal project and our schools’ expectations for
community service.
Community Service Requirements
Students at FIS should complete a community service project in order to fulfill our school’s
community service requirements. Community services projects will all be completed as part of
our Action as Service, which is imbedded in each subject group. Students will therefore explore
a community service project in each subject and take an action as a result of their exploration
(i.e. raising awareness campaign).
3Deadlines & Fees
Obtaining an IB MYP Certificate or Course Results are both optional requirements. However,
the personal project is mandatory for all Year 5 students. Our MYP Coordinator will be in
charge of registering students for optional eAssessments and the mandatory personal project.
All Year 5 students must register for on-screen examinations, ePortfolios, and the personal
project by October 18, 2020. If students miss this deadline date, they may still register by the
dates mentioned below, but the registration fees will be considerably higher after Oct. 18.
Table 1: MYP eAssessment Deadlines
Candidate Registration
Registration Deadline 18 October 2020
Late Registration Deadline 18 January 2021
Personal Project & ePortfolios
Student Submission of the Personal Project 7 March 2021
Student Submission of the Design ePortfolio 18 March 2021
Student Submission of French ePortfolio 29 March 2021
On-Screen Examinations
ID Examination Pre-Release Material Available 1 April 2021
Examination Period (Two Weeks) 10 – 21 May 2021
Results
Issue of Results from 12:00 PM GMT 1 August 2021
Table 2: Registration Fees
Discipline Registration Fee
Registered by the Registration Deadline 240 SR PER DISCIPLINE*
Registered during the Late Registration Deadline 320 SR PER DISCIPLINE
Registered after the Late Registration Deadline 540 SR PER DISCIPLINE
Personal Project Registration Fee**
Registered by the Registration Deadline EXEMPT FROM FEES
Registered during the Late Registration Deadline 80 SR
Registered after the Late Registration Deadline 300 SR
* Year 5 students registering as candidates for the full MYP Certificate need to register for eight disciplines,
and will therefore need to pay 1,680 SR by Oct. 15, 2021. Please note that students will not be registered on
the IB system unless they pay the registration fees.
** Year 5 students who register only for the personal project DO NOT need to pay any fees if they are
registered before the Registration Deadline.
4A Description of MYP eAssessments
Figure1: MYP eAssessment Model
Guide to MYP eAssessments. Published July 2016.
On-Screen Examinations
On-screen examinations are external examinations (two hours in duration) that will be
taken for disciplines in language & literature, mathematics, sciences, individuals and societies,
and interdisciplinary learning. These examinations are optional and will be conducted at
school in the computer lab. Year 5 students who choose to complete on-screen examinations
this year will be registered for the following:
Table 3: On-Screen Examinations
Subject Group On-Screen Examination Discipline
Language & Literature English
Mathematics Mathematics
Sciences Integrated Sciences
Individuals & Societies History
Interdisciplinary Learning Interdisciplinary Learning
On-screen examinations compromise a set of extended tasks and a series of stimulus
materials or background resources to engage students with interesting scenarios and problems.
Each task targets at least one assessment criterion and explicitly identifies key and related
concepts. Each examination series will focus on one global context, which will be published in
November 1, 2020 for students taking the May external on-screen examination.
5Candidate students will have access to interdisciplinary pre-release material in order to
familiarize with interdisciplinary learning topics that will appear on the on-screen exam. The
following link contains two videos that provide more insight on on-screen examinations:
http://www.ibo.org/programmes/middle-years-programme/assessment-and-
exams/assessment-from-2016/.
Candidate students will begin preparing for on-screen exams in Term 2 by practicing past
on-screen exams with their teachers. They will also be given a copy of the software in order to
practice them at home.
ePortfolios
An ePortfolio is the final product students will submit for the subject groups in language
acquisition, arts, design, and physical and health education. Similarly to external on-screen
examinations, ePortfolios are also optional. Year 5 students at FIS interested in obtaining an IB
MYP Certificate or Course Results need to complete one ePortfolio in language acquisition
(French), and one ePortfolio in design. A list of summative assessment tasks for each subject
group is mentioned on the next page in Table 4.
The IB will release partially completed unit planners for these subject groups on the first of
November. These planners will contain a global context and exploration, key concept, related
concept(s), statement of inquiry, inquiry questions, and summative assessment task(s). MYP
teachers will complete these planners by adding learning experiences that will enable students
to achieve the required summative assessment tasks.
Students will then complete these units from December 2020 through March 2021, which
will result in the summative assessment tasks. These summative assessment tasks will be
represented as ePortfolios, which will be in the form of a text file, audio file, video file, and/or
image file. Students will receive clear instructions later on this year on the length/duration of
each summative assessment task. Year 5 students will conduct some of these summative
assessment independently and others under their teachers’ supervision in school. After
students submit their ePortfolios, MYP teachers will mark their work, and send their ePortfolios
to the IBO for further moderation.
Concerning language acquisition, students interested in submitting ePortfolios will be
registered as “emergent” candidates of the French language. Submitting a French ePortfolio is a
mandatory requirement for registering as an MYP Certificate candidate. If FIS French teachers
and the French coordinator have concerns about a student’s academic level in French, the
student will not be registered as a full MYP Certificate candidate.
6Table 4: Summative Assessment Tasks
Subject Group Summative Assessment Task
• Task 1: Aural Comprehension Task
• Task 2: Written Comprehension Task
Language Acquisition
• Task 3: Interactive Oral Task
• Task 4: Writing Task
Summative assessment tasks in design require students to present their work
through the headings of the four criteria:
Design • Criterion A: Investigating & Inquiring
• Criterion B: Developing Ideas
• Criterion C: Creating the Solution
• Criterion D: Evaluation
Personal Project
The personal project is an independent, student-centered and age-appropriate extended
project in which Year 5 students consolidate their learning throughout the MYP programme. It
should revolve around a challenge that motivates and interests a student. Unlike on-screen
examinations and ePortfolios, personal projects are mandatory for all Year 5 students.
Students are required to submit their personal projects reports by March 7, 2021, in the form of
written, oral, visual, or multimedia form. They will receive guidance from both their assigned
supervisor and our Personal Project Coordinator, Mrs. Razan Al-Khatib,
7Grading eAssessments
As mentioned earlier, students need to complete a total of eight eAssessments (five
external examinations, two ePortfolios, and one personal project) in order to acquire an IB MYP
Certificate. Students can achieve a maximum grade of 7 in each eAssessment, which all
culminate to a total score of 56.
Students must achieve at least 28 points from across all eight eAssessments
(and at least a Grade 3 in each of them), and fulfill our school’s expectations of
community service in order to receive an IB MYP Certificate.
General grade descriptors are as follows:
Table 5: General Grade Descriptors
Grade Descriptor
Produces work of very limited quality. Conveys many significant misunderstandings or
1 lacks understanding of most concepts and skills. Very rarely demonstrates critical or
creative thinking. Very inflexible, rarely using knowledge or skills.
Produces work of limited quality. Expresses misunderstanding or significant gaps in
understanding for many concepts and contexts. Infrequently demonstrates critical or
2
creative thinking. Generally inflexible in the use of knowledge and skills, infrequently
applying knowledge and skills.
Produce work of acceptable quality. Communicates basic understanding of many concepts
and contexts, with occasionally significant misunderstandings or gaps. Begins to
3
demonstrate some basic critical and creative thinking. Is often inflexible in the use of
knowledge and skills, requiring support even in familiar classroom situations.
Produces good quality work. Communicates basic understanding of most concepts and
contexts with few misunderstandings and minor gaps. Often demonstrates basic critical
4
and creative thinking. Uses knowledge and skills with some flexibility in familiar
classroom situations, but requires support in unfamiliar situations.
Produces generally high-quality work. Communicates secure understanding of concepts
and contexts. Demonstrates critical and creative thinking, sometimes with sophistication.
5
Uses knowledge and skills in familiar classroom and real-world situations, and, with
support, some unfamiliar real-world situations.
Produces high-quality, occasionally innovative work. Communicates extensive
understanding of concepts and contexts. Demonstrates critical and creative thinking,
6
frequently with sophistication. Uses knowledge and skills in familiar and unfamiliar
classroom and real-world situations, often with independence.
Produces high-quality, frequently innovative work. Communicates comprehensive,
nuanced understanding of concepts and contexts. Consistently demonstrates sophisticated
7
critical and creative thinking. Frequently transfers knowledge and skills with
independence and expertise in a variety of complex classroom and real-world situations.
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