At AVM, students are evaluated on the basis of their willingness to learn and the efforts they make to reach their goals, based on a comprehensive evaluation system. Evaluation in the school is a combined effort on the part of the teachers, the parents and the students to better understand the learning experiences for each student. Processes of learning and the relationships that students create while learning are accorded high significance.

Students are usually not compared with one another. On the contrary, they are gently guided to understand their own inherent strengths, virtues and potential that they possess within themselves. The objective is to recognise the progress that each child makes in his or her own learning curve.

Teachers use daily class observations, students’ creative pursuits, informal assessments, group and individual goal settings as indicators of progress and development. To the extent possible, teachers and parents together share their observations with the students and seek collective goal setting as the strategy for future development of each student. Like the myriad influences of the school, evaluation at AVM is also a source of inspiration and learning, and not a time for judgement and fear. And in keeping with the latest research in the area, AVM follows the Grading system of evaluation instead of allotting marks.