Protocol for the upcoming assessments

Protocol Assessment.

1.

The function of the Christmas assessment is to judge whether there have been enough results and development during your study in the first semester and whether you are capable of finishing the study in the Basisjaar successfully. At the end of the year, you will be again evaluated as to whether we consider you to be ready to continue on in one of the departments of the higher years.

2.

For the assessment you are asked to build up an exhibition in a classroom. Be absolutely on time to do this, you have only about an hour to install your works before your scheduled presentation time.

You need to show all relevant work of the last period. That is to say, not just what you consider to be your best (finished) works, but also that which illustrates the process and development such as sketches, photos and early try-outs of ideas.

3.

All of you need to be there throughout the day to help each other out with installing, clean-up and moral support.

4.

The assessment committee consists out of your mentor, your other teachers and an independent chairman (a mentor teacher from another class group). This committee will visit your exhibition and the chairman will lead the assessment. He/she will invite your teachers to comment upon the works and your development and may ask you for brief explanations.

5.

The committee then withdraws to make up a report. The report consists out of the individual evaluations from each of your teachers plus a final common evaluation. Next to the written comments, you will also get a mark or grade: sufficient, doubtful or insufficient.

After your teachers have completed the report, you are invited to hear the result. You will then be asked to photocopy the report, keep the copy for yourself and return the original directly to the teachers.

6.

In the case of a negative (insufficient) evaluation, you will receive after the assessment what’s called a Binding Study Advice. This is an official warning sent to you where we ask you to consider seriously whether you should continue your study. If no significant improvements have taken place by the end of the school year, you will be given the binding advice that you may not continue to study at the Rietveld.

7.

After your presentation, all your work must be removed from the third floor, you must either directly bring it home or dispose of it in the special containers set up for this purpose. You may not store these works any longer at school, as space must be made for the second semester. The third floor must be left clean after the assessments!

8.

We sincerely ask you to do the best you can to make a good exhibition and we wish you much success.