Evaluation Process

At Evergreen, a student's learning and academic progress are assessed in narrative evaluations rather than grades. Students will receive multiple evaluations from faculty, as well as write their own self-evaluations, which will contribute to their overall transcript.

Evaluations serve as an alternative to grades. Being narrative documents, they are far more descriptive. While a grade can reveal nothing about the thinking that went into a student's work or what work the student completed, evaluations express the reactions of both students and faculty members to that particular student's work. These detailed documents often provide specific examples of achievement or progress within a particular program or other mode of learning, e.g., a contract.

Final Transcripts at Evergreen typically include the following for each course or program

• Faculty Evaluation of Student
• Student Self-Evaluation

How does the evaluation process work?

At the end of a course/program/contract, students:

• prepare self-evaluations, summarizing their accomplishments, learning environment, new understandings and goals for the future
• meet and discuss their academic progress with the faculty and receive their evaluation from faculty
• write evaluations of their faculty

At the end of the course/program, faculty:

• prepare evaluations of student achievement
• meet and discuss the evaluation with the students during evaluation week