What are the Requirements to Earn a Midvale MYP Certificate?

We offer three levels of certificates: Gold, Silver, and Bronze.  All three levels require students to participate in community service, achieve in all eight subject areas, and complete a culminating reflective project.  The requirements for each level of certificate is as follows:

How are MYP Grades Assessed During the Final Year of the Programme?

In the final year of our programme, students are assessed using the MYP criteria as outlined in our rubrics.  An overall score for each subject is obtained by:

1- Listing a student’s summative assessment score for each subjects’ criteria.
2- Adding the values obtained for each criterion for a ‘total’ score.   This is the criterion levels total.
3- The criterion levels totals score (in each subject) is then compared to the grade boundary scale.   The grade boundary scale provides the overall MYP grade for each subject. Language A is the only subject area with a different grade boundary scale.  Language A has 3 criterion with each of a max score of 10 for a total of 30.  All other subject areas have 4 criterion with a max score of 8 for a total of 32.

The grade boundary scales are shown in the tables below.
Example:  If a student scored a 5 on each of the four Arts criteria, the students criterion level score would be 20 for Arts.  Using the Arts grade boundary scale, the score of 20 falls within the 7 category.  The student would thus earn a 7 for their Arts MYP Grade.  This would be the students final certificate score for Arts.

4 - The overall score from each subject area is then added together.  All 8 overall scores added together represents the students subject area achievement.