School performance: assessment

In order to prove the level of achievement, pupils provide written, oral and practical achievements at appropriate intervals according to the requirements of the respective educational programme, the grade level concerned as well as the individual subjects, learning areas, learning fields and learning field groups. Certificates of achievement are used for performance evaluation and as a basis for advice.

The individual written, oral and practical assessments as well as the total achievements during a school year are evaluated according to six grading levels. In certain grades or in some courses of study at the special school, the grades can be supplemented or replaced by a general evaluation or a point system.

Statements on performance evaluation are contained in the Lower Saxony School Act, in the Lower Saxony School Regulations for Primary Schools, Secondary and Realschules, Grammar Schools and Comprehensive Schools, as well as in school regulations for vocational schools. This applies in particular to regulations on the type, number, scope, difficulty and weighting of performance records, on performance evaluation without and with the help of grades as well as on certificates/examinations. Further stipulations on performance certificates are made in the curricula.