New look school reports for Rosehill Secondary College

This semester, parents, guardians and students will notice a new look to students’ school reports as we transition from the previously used reporting software to Compass reporting and move to a system of continuous online reporting for Years 7 to 10.

What does continuous online reporting look like?

Many schools have now moved to continuous online reporting as a means of providing parents and students with ‘real time’ assessment information and feedback that will form the basis of the final academic semester report. This semester, Rosehill will adopt this model of reporting for Years 7 to 10. In each of your child’s subjects, you will notice Learning Tasks titled ‘Summative Assessment Task’ appearing. These tasks, easily identified by the accompanying flag symbol (indicating ‘this Learning Task has been flagged as important’), represent the major assessment tasks students will complete. The grade, comment and suggestions for improvement (where appropriate) that are entered onto Compass against each flagged Summative Assessment Task will also appear on your child’s Semester 2 academic report. The value of this assessment and reporting model is that it provides students and parents with timely information on achievement and progress.

What about Learning Tasks that do not carry the flag symbol?

A quick check of your Year 7-10 child’s Compass platform will show you that not all Learning Tasks listed are titled ‘Summative Assessment Tasks’. These ‘unflagged’ tasks may be considered as the very important ‘stepping-stones’ towards developing and demonstrating the expected level of understanding in any given unit of work. They are important and not optional; however, unlike Summative Assessment Tasks, they do not appear as standalone items on the final semester report.

Will all Year 7-10 Summative Assessment Tasks include a comment and suggestions for improvement?

As we transition to this new reporting model, teachers will be providing a grade for all Summative Assessment Tasks. Comments and suggestions for improvement will be provided for all Summative Assessment Tasks other than unit tests.

What about Year 11 and 12 semester reports?

In this, our transition year, continuous online reporting will be introduced at Years 7 to 10. Year 11 and 12 reporting will continue in the same way as in previous years, notwithstanding that formatting may look a little different due to the move to a Compass platform. Teachers will continue to place Learning Tasks on Compass where Year 11 and 12 students and parents may view results and teacher feedback as they currently do.

Frances Snow

Assistant Principal

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