The minimum reporting for Victorian students for Victorian Curriculum F-10: - Schools must provide a student report at least twice a year to parents/carers for each child at the school.
- Reports must be issued in the first half of the year and the second half of the year.
- Reports must be provided in an accessible form and be easy for parents/carers to understand and use.
- Schools must make provision to issue reports to more than one parent/carer where family circumstances make this appropriate.
- Schools must report on an approved curriculum framework.
- Reports must comprise accurate, objective and on-balance judgements of assessment evidence gathered in each school-defined subject during this period.
- Judgements must be made against the standards defined for each curriculum area taught.
- The standard curriculum frameworks approved for use are:
- Victorian Curriculum F–10, including subsets (2.5, 4.5 and 6.5-10 continuum) and stage/levels A to D
- Victorian Curriculum F-10 English as an Additional Language (EAL)
- EAL (English as an Additional Language) Developmental Continuum P–10
- the relevant diocesan religious education curriculum, such as Religious Education (RE) and Religious Education Renewed (REN) and Religious Education (RESALE).
- English, Mathematics, Science must be reported at least annually, with all other curriculum areas reported at least biennially.
- Accurate judgements must be recorded for every student.
- Judgements must be recorded in the format prescribed by the responsible authority.
- Judgements must be displayed in a way that conveys a student’s achievement.
- Achievement for English and must be displayed at the mode level.
- Achievement for Mathematics must be displayed at the
strand/mode - curriculum area and may be displayed at the strand level.
- All other curriculum areas must be displayed at the curriculum area level.
- Where more than one judgement has been made against the same standard in a reporting period, reports must display an aggregated judgement for that standard at the appropriate level.
- Where achievement is displayed graphically, it must be accompanied by a scale.
- Judgements must be displayed in a way that conveys progress since the last time the standards were reported against in the school.
- Achievement must be displayed using a 5-point scale.
- The scale employed for English, Mathematics and Science must be an age-level-expected scale. That is, a scale indicating if a child is well above, above, at, below or well below the standard expected for their age at the time of reporting.
- If a parent/carer requests it, schools must provide parent/carers with an indication of how their child’s performance compares to that of his/her peer group.
- Schools that choose to provide parents with access to the student report digitally must make a printed version available to parents/carers on request.
- A 5-point scale must be employed to display judgements against standards in modified reports for Students with Additional Learning Needs.
- A modified report for Students with Additional Learning Needs can only be issued with the endorsement of the principal and must involve consultation with the student and parents/carers.
- Special circumstances reporting:
- can only be employed in the case of Exemption from a Curriculum Area, Late Enrolment, School Refusal, Serious Illness, Unapproved Extended Family Holiday
- must involve consultation with the student and parents/carers
- uses Did Not Participate (DNP) codes.
- Pathways reporting can only be employed where a managed pathway is in place, and must involve consultation with the student and parents/carers.
- Students commencing VCAL in Year 10 must receive a report that also includes information about their progress and achievement in the curriculum areas of English and Mathematics.
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