Assessment & Reporting

Assessment & Reporting Updates

In 2026 the school has implemented a number of assessment and reporting updates, designed to further support consistent whole school practices. These include:

• Changes to the grading scales used at Year 7-10: Year 7-10 CATs will now use an A-E scale, with each grade aligned with the same percentage score for all subjects.

• Changes to the grading scales used at VCE: VCE (Year 11 and 12) will only report percentage results.

• Changes to marking timeframe: the school wide expectation is that marking and feedback to the community is finalised within three weeks of the assessment being conducted. This includes, by the end of the three week period, the following being visible to students and parents on the Compass Learning Task:

  • a comment

  • a grade

  • any further informationo the return of work and feedback to students

   

There may be some minor variations to this where cross marking is required at VCE for large cohorts, however these should be minimal.

Learning Overview Documents

As with last year, Learning Overview documents have been provided for all subjects in Semester 1, and are now available on Compass for parent and student access.

At Eltham High School we value the in class and ongoing learning that occurs through homework and class tasks alongside the summative assessment of knowledge and skills through Common Assessment Tasks. For students to experience success in their learning, they need to demonstrate ongoing and consistent engagement with the key skills and key knowledge of each curriculum area via class work, homework, and Common Assessment Tasks.

Each of these align closely with judgements teachers make in both Interim and Semester Reports regarding students' effort and persistence, organisation, respectful behaviour, and ongoing engagement in learning. Students’ engagement with these expectations is measured in an ongoing way throughout the semester and contribute to a student's satisfactory completion of a subject.

Learning Overviews outline the touchpoints for Ongoing Learning Expectations and Common Assessment Tasks that occur in each subject this semester. It is important to recognise that it is not solely the learning expectations set out in this document that form a teacher’s judgement regarding student progress; these are also informed by their ongoing work with students across the semester.

Years 8-10 Reporting

At Years 8-10 a student’s satisfactory completion of a subject is determined through a combination of their ongoing learning engagement and completion and achievement of Common Assessment Tasks. Interim and Semester Reports continue to provide information regarding each student’s performance on Common Assessment Tasks, and four key learning dispositions including:

• respectful behaviour

• effort and persistence

• organisation

• ongoing engagement in learning

Both Common Assessment Task performance, and learning dispositions are equally weighted in determining a students satisfactory completion of a subject each semester. If a student does not demonstrate consistent engagement with these expectations this may be cause for a Student Progress Notice to be sent home, and for a student to receive an N result for a subject.

LOREN CLARKE, Assessment and Reporting Leader