Assessment is an important part of Soundview Education. Soundview students have a variety of ways in which they may demonstrate what they know and are able to do.

Through Self-reflection

Self-reflection is encouraged through opportunities for students to self-evaluate by adjudicating their own work over against a rubric for a particular assignment, artifact or event. The reflection process includes identifying strengths and challenges and setting goals for improvement as teachers and students document progress over time.

Through Publication

Culminating projects and activities are part of each trimester's work at each grade level, with "publication" happening in a variety of venues and formats: exhibits, documentaries, performances or presentations before larger audiences. These events both validate student work and lend authenticity to the learning and assessment process by making student work public.

Through Performances

Soundview students have many opportunities to demonstrate proficiency in assemblies, concerts, public performances, presentations, festivals and plays. Students are learning, not only content, but creativity, confidence, composure, public competence and community spirit.

Through Visual Arts

In the visual arts, students demonstrate and document what they have learned through art portfolios, through exhibit areas in the hallways and Performing Arts Center, and by successfully competing in a variety of contests, exhibits and arts festivals.

Through Competitions

Soundview's annual Declamation Night is a major exhibition for all Middle School students, adjudicated by professional actors and directors, at which each student performs from memory a literary work on the stage in our Performing Arts Center. Middle School students also enter the National History Day competition each year; many Soundview students have been selected to compete at the state level tournament. Students also submit their artworks to several poster and bookmark competitions, as well as the Edmonds Arts Festival.

Through Nationally-Normed Standardized Tests

Soundview administers the CTP4 testing batteries each year to our 4-6th graders. These tests (published by the Educational Records Bureau) are some of the most widely-used, and best-regarded nationally-normed tests in the United States.

Soundview’s grade-level cohort median scores are significantly above the national median scores in each of the tested areas – verbal reasoning, vocabulary, reading comprehension, writing mechanics, writing concepts and skills, quantitative reasoning, and mathematics. To oversimplify: Soundview’s grade level cohorts score better for each of the tests in the CTP4 than between 80 and 95% of students in the country.

Through Homework, Quizzes, and Exams

Students also document what they know through more traditional means, such as written work, quizzes, homework and exams.