Policies

1. Good standing
   Good standing status means:
   * min. 80% attendance
   * no pending deadline notices (subjects, EE, TOK)
   * Status report with 20 points or more after IB1
   Good standing status is a prerequisite for participating in trips and excursions (even short ones involving missing lessons), and registration for exams, and is a primary factor in being promoted to IB2. Insufficient attendance, regardless of cause, leads to difficulty in evaluating a student’s progress. Determination of the students’ status is made at the bi-weekly IB staff meeting.
2. Feedback on assignments
   Drafts for assignments collected for assessment receive general teacher comments on a separate paper, and the teacher comments are only given in one round. If an entirely new topic is started, then new feedback may be given, provided the relevant deadline has been held.
3. Deadlines
   When a deadline has passed (first draft EE, or any final deadline for work that is formally assessed externally or internally), the subject teacher is to issue a Deadline Notice to any student who has not submitted work, as well as give a copy of the notice to the student’s mentor and to the IB coordinator.
   Any student who does not submit an Extended Essay draft in May (1500 words min.) will not be advanced automatically to IB2, and will be called to a meeting with parents and the Headmaster.
   Submission of the final Extended Essay by the October deadline is a prerequisite for being registered for IB examinations.
   
   Our strategy to encourage the meeting of deadlines is twofold—including on the one hand a greater communication regarding both progress and problems, and on the other hand to provide opportunities for catching up and regaining “good standing” status.
4. Mock Examinations
   Mock examinations are held to help assess a student’s progress, as well as to help teachers determine predicted grades (PGs) In the final year (IB2), they are held prior to the period of revision.
   
   In IB1, mock exam results should be posted by 31 May in Dexter, accessible to students, teachers and the parents of students under age 18. Progress in CAS, TOK, and EE should also be covered. 
5. Status Reports
   Status reports are distributed to students in June (IB1), with an accessible copy available in Dexter.  The scale used is 1 – 7 with +/- option.
6. Predicted Grades
   PGs are determined and submitted via IBIS in April of the final year, but are not communicated to students, except when necessary for international application procedures.
7. Transfer credit for certificate students
   Many IB subjects can be used to establish credit in courses in the Swedish national system which are similar to or largely correspond to the IB syllabi. There is no automatic exchange formula, however, and the Swedish grade must be determined by the teacher, using available results from exams, mock exams, internally and externally assessed work.
8. Class conference and other feedback channels
   The school-wide schedule and structure for class conferences will be followed for the pre DP IB class, but not for the classes in their diploma years (IB1 and IB2). Rather, a portion of the Monday staff meeting will once monthly be dedicated to assessment updates. IB subject teachers who do not attend the staff meeting will both provide input as well as receive feedback relevant to these updates. Feedback is also given to students by their mentor and/or the IB coordinator.
9. Systematized analysis
   An annual review of exam results as well as students’ evaluations in each subject are conducted as part of the school’s routines for ensuring quality (Sw. kvalitetsredovisning).

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