Academic Policy

Rules governing studies, grades, and conduct.

Yuh Chiuaians are expected to excel both in discipline and academics; thus, it is important for them to be:

Present in daily classes,
Prepared for all assigned tasks in each discipline,
Active in meaningful learning activities designed for each discipline,
Optimistic and positive in attitude in meeting challenges of academic-related tasks,
Open to share insights, questions, and skills in class,
Willing to own the learning process in pursuing excellence in all endeavors,
Self-disciplined and confident in the learning process provided by the school, and
Grateful and trusting to strive in realizing their full potential.

The performance of learners is evaluated regularly in order to assess the degree and quality of learning that has taken place, and it is done through writing assessment and performance tasks.

Assessment shall be used primarily as a quality assurance tool to track learner progress in the attainment of standards, promote self-reflection and personal accountability for one’s learning, and provide a basis for the profiling of learner performance.

Assessment shall be holistic, with emphasis on the formative or development purpose of quality assuring learning. It is also standards-based as it seeks to ensure that teachers will teach to the standards and learner will aim to meet or even exceed the standards. The learner’s attainment of standards in terms of content and performance is, therefore, a critical evidence of learning.

Writing Assessment
Assessment is the gathering of information about learning. It can be used for formative purposes – to adjust instruction – or summative purposes; to render a judgement about the quality of work. One of the major purposes of assessment is to provide feedback to learners. And it is a key instructional activity, and teachers engage in it every day in a variety of informal and formal ways.
Quizzes
These assessment activities maybe announced or unannounced.
- For Nursery 1 to Kindergarten: All quizzes shall be announced.
- For Grade 1 to Grade 3: All quizzes shall be announced.
- For Grade 4 to Grade 6: A class shall be given a maximum of four (4) announced quizzes a day.
- For Grade 7 to Grade 10: A class shall be given a maximum of five (5) announced quizzes a day.
- For Grade 11 to Grade 12: All quizzes shall be unannounced.
N.B.: If classes are suspended, scheduled quizzes shall be moved to the next school day.
Long Tests
Long tests are administered once a quarter and each long test shall last for 40 minutes. The schedule for long tests during the four (4) quarters shall be announced at the very least, a week before it is administered. Long tests cover a whole chapter lesson, or a unit lesson, or a whole topic, but NOT a whole-quarter lesson.
Quarterly Assessments
Quarterly examinations are scheduled at the close of a quarter reflected in the school calendar and is circularized at the onset of the school year. The test duration is one (1) hour per discipline.
N.B.: When classes are suspended during long tests and/or quarterly examination days due to emergency and unavoidable reasons like typhoons, cancelled long tests and/or quarterly examinations are given upon resumption of classes. Succeeding tests follow the same sequence as originally scheduled.
Request for Advanced Tests
Advanced long tests or quarterly examination are subject to the approval of the School Principal and are to be administered by the concerned Department Coordinator. A written notice from the learner’s parent or guardian stating the reason for the request is a requirement.
Make – Up Tests
- Make-up tests are prepared for learners, who due to VALID reasons missed announced quizzes, long tests, or quarterly examinations.
- Make-up quizzes are given and administered by the subject teacher after classes either in the morning or in the afternoon.
- The schedule of make-up long tests or quarterly examinations is prepared by the class advisers in coordination with the concerned Department Coordinator.
- Inability to take long tests or quarterly examinations due to serious illness like but not limited to sore eyes, measles, mumps, high fever is treated on a case to case basis. A written request substantiated by a medical certificate must be presented to the School Principal. The request for and mode of the make- up tests are subject for approval by the School Principal.
- The number of tests a learner may take in a day depend on the nature of tests. For missed quizzes, a maximum of three (3) tests in a day.
N.B.: Failure to take the test on the scheduled date will automatically mean a score of ZERO for the said discipline/s, unless a written request for rescheduling with VALID reasons is presented to the office of the School Principal before the scheduled test.
Culminating Activities or Performance Tasks
A Culminating Activity is a learning activity or assessment that asks learners to perform to demonstrate their knowledge, understanding, and proficiency. Culminating Activities yield a tangible product and / or performance that serve as evidence of learning. Culminating Activity calls for learners to apply their learning in context. To make learning meaningful and memorable, culminating activities should be interesting to the learners, age-appropriate, within their experience, and well connected to the important content, process, and skills enveloped in the curriculum.