The American International School in Abu Dhabi has a truly diverse student population, encompassing over 75 nationalities and approximately 80% of the students speak English as an additional language.
The school already uses an external assessment to measure how students are performing within their curriculum but wanted to develop a more complete picture of their students:
Stephany Herzog, Elementary Learning Support Coordinator, will describe how they have integrated measures of student ability and attitudes to provide the answers to these questions and to support a personalised approach to teaching.
Stephany will also discuss how the school has shared this information with parents and way the data supports a home-school dialogue.