1994 Symposium integrating Ignatian Pedagogy more fully and effectively into the teaching and administration of Jesuit schools.
1997 Symposium dealt with the interplay of EXPERIENCE and REFLECTION within and across disciplines.
2000 Symposium concentrated on the dynamic of active REFLECTION leading to reflective ACTION.
2003 Symposium looking at EVALUATION, the fifth major element of the IGNATIAN PEDAGOGICAL PARADIGM.

Ignatian pedagogy encourages evaluation as a way of examining
students' well-rounded growth as persons for others.

Jesuit Secondary Education Association

Evaluation:
a Key to Cura Personalis

Cura personalis: In the Igatian tradition, Jesuit educators are committed to the development of the "whole person." Symposium 2003 will examine evaluation in a holistic context, exploring ways of assessing not only intellectual growth, but also emotional growth, physical growth, social and religious growth of students. Students experience evaluation from various individuals, including retreat directors, counselors, moderators, parents and student themselves. The Ignatian element of evaluation is the what and how of integrating the pieces of evaluation to form a profile of the student as a "whole person." (from a Symposium handout)

Ignatius invites us to expand our vision of assessment and evaluation

Assessment: A systematic process of gathering, interpreting, and using information about student learning (American Association of Higher Education, 1992)
Evaluation: A process of developing tools to measure performance and the degree to which the students has reached objectives.

Who is involved in the process of assessment?

Everyone who touches the life of the student during his high school experience -- teachers, coaches, moderators, administrators, counselors, retreat directors, etc.

What categories of assessment am I invited to incorporate?

� intellectual formation

� religious formation

� social/emotional formation

� physical formation

What principles should I consider when developing assessments?

Assessment should

Be designed to evaluate the whole person.
Be periodic.
Help student develop learning strategies.
Be designed toward student success.
Have clear objectives.
Employ a variety of methods.
Match the language of instruction.
Encourage self-assessment.

What could this look like in my classroom?

Student Interviews
Performance-based Tasks
Reflection Essays
Oral Reports
Directed Observations
Expanded Progress Reports
Rubrics Designed to Reflect Levels of Achievement.
Tests and Quizzes.
Multiple Intelligences.

What are some specific activites I can use in my clasroom?

Some concrete examples can be found at

IPP Lesson Plans on the JSEA website.

Here are some from the the Theology discipline group

Who sees the results of my assessments?

The student
The parents
Couselors
Faculty
Coaches
Administrators

Remember... "The point of learning something in school is to enrich life outside of school and to acquire the skills and ideas that will enable one to produce the questions and perform the activities that one's outside life will require."

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Ignatian pedagogy encourages evaluation as a way of examining students' well-rounded growth as persons for others.

Evaluation: a Key to Cura Personalis