The school employs an accelerated curriculum, and classes are formed according to student ability, as opposed to grade level.
The second use of the model is to assess student ability.
Grades and teacher recommendations serve as the primary indicators of student ability and motivation.
Standardized test scores have been attacked in recent years as being inaccurate indicators of student ability and especially unfair to minority students.
The fifth ranking system is based on "student ability".
This requires the teacher to have the skill to analyze and assess student abilities in the moment.
In part of the official reports, however, scores from a period's principal testing domain are used as proxy for overall student ability.
The reality is whole sale change in student ability is really not happening.
Although we respect student ability, we know student effort is more important in the long run.
Such norm-referenced scores convey a good sense of student abilities.