Below are the updates from Ayb High School and the Armenian educational system impacted by COVID-19.
As of March 16, Ayb School successfully shifted the entire educational process to distance learning, which enabled a sustainable and smooth continuity of education at school.
The Armenian Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports decided to cancel all the exams for the learners and take into account only the grades issued before March 13, when the country had to shift the educational system to the online learning mode.
- The state high school diploma (certificate) grades provided by the Ministry are calculated basing on the students’ performance before March 13.
- Ayb High school transcript grades are calculated basing on the students’ performance before March 13 and before May 25.
Under the circumstances, the Ayb Educational Foundation, which has developed the Araratian Baccalaureate curriculum, will follow the assessment process adopted by Cambridge Assessment International Education for the students, who are supposed to take the AB exams.
STEM subjects are co-certified by Cambridge and the procedure to give grades to 130 learners will be collaborative via collecting a range of evidence to allow evidence-based decisions on the grades for each learner in each subject.
We are doing our utmost to ensure that learners are not disadvantaged in any way due to the cancellation of the year-end exams.
The Ayb Educational Foundation members will use their professional experience to provide fair and objective grades they believe the learners would have achieved had they sat their exams this year. Ayb will take into account the fullest range of evidence available to them when they offer learners’ grades; the results of any assignments or mock exams; and any other records of student performance over the course of study. The Ayb High School will provide a rank order of the learners within each grade. This is because the standardisation process will need more information than the predicted grade alone.
The Ayb High School follows a four-step procedure:
• Step 1. The School determines the learner’s predicted grades for each subject
• Step 2. The School determines each learner’s place within a rank order of all learners within each grade for each syllabus
• Step 3. The School Principal confirms the predicted grades and rank orders and sends them to the Ayb Educational Foundation for validation. The Ayb Educational Foundation sends the predicted grades and rank order to Cambridge International
• Step 4. Cambridge International combines school data with a standardisation process and awards final grades for each learner.
Cambridge has provided clear guidance to schools on the grading and rank ordering process to help staff in different schools take a common approach to assessing their students.
Please be assured that the grades that Cambridge International and the Ayb Educational foundation award for this June series will carry the same value as grades and qualifications for any other series.
Final grades will be available on July 10.
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