ASOC Annual Evaluation Process FAQs

Per California Education Code Section 58500 , an ASOC is defined as a school or separate class group within a school which is operated in a manner designed to:

• Maximize the opportunity for students to develop the positive values of self-reliance, initiative, kindness, spontaneity, resourcefulness, courage, creativity, responsibility, and joy.
  
  
• Recognize that the best learning takes place when the student learns because of his desire to learn.
  
  
• Maintain a learning situation maximizing student self-motivation and encouraging the student in his own time to follow his own interests. These interests may be conceived by him totally and independently or may result in whole or in part from a presentation by his teachers of choices of learning projects.
  
  
• Maximize the opportunity for teachers, parents, and students to cooperatively develop the learning process and its subject matter. This opportunity shall be a continuous, permanent process.
  
  
• Maximize the opportunity for the students, teachers, and parents to continuously react to the changing world, including but not limited to the community in which the school is located.

Yes. All ASOCs and alternative programs of choice are required to complete annual evaluations as stated in California Education Code Section 58510 .

No. The student, parent, and teacher surveys must remain consistent with the information the California Department of Education provides. This will allow for a multi-year analysis.

The ASOC Annual Evaluations are due on or before August 1 of the following year as stated in the California Education Code Section 58510 .

Yes. The California Department of Education highly encourages schools/programs to complete and submit prior to the August 1 deadline.

No. There is not a process in place to waive the annual evaluation. This is required per California Education Code Section 58509 .

No. When you use the electronic online survey process no outside evaluator is necessary. The California Department of Education will evaluate the information once it is received.

No. Responses should be submitted using the total number of participants who responded to each designated choice. Please use whole numbers.

Final reports are submitted by completing the online report .