Reporting

Reporting in Prep to Year 6

For each reporting period, schools report separately on each learning area/subject taught.

Students are assessed and reported against the achievement standard for the year/band of years taught. The report represents the student's level of achievement at the time of reporting.

Reporting scales vary across the years of schooling (see Table 2: Reporting scales).

Each semester, schools report on student achievement in the aspects of an achievement standard that have been taught and assessed during the reporting period. This on-balance judgement is based on the evidence of student performance in the assessment folio — refer to Assessment and moderation in Prep to Year 10.

 At the end of the semester in which the achievement standard is completed, the teacher makes an on-balance judgement about the student's overall level of achievement for the achievement standard. This judgement is based on the evidence of student performance in the assessment folio. It takes into consideration the most recent evidence.

Reporting uses judgments

Teachers make judgments about the quality of student work in the assessment folio or individual assessment instruments, that is, how well the student has met those elements of the standards that have been taught and assessed during the reporting period.

A level of achievement is then awarded using a five-point scale (A-E or equivalent depending on the year level).

Reporting scales        

Table 2 shows how the naming of five-point scales varies across the years of schooling. Attachment 2 provides descriptors for each of these scales.

Table 2: Reporting scales