Testing

PISA Testing

Cobram Secondary College has been selected to be involved in one of the international sample assessments of the National Assessment Program, the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018.

PISA assesses students' skills and knowledge in reading, mathematics, science and financial literacy, proving both a national and international perspective.

A random sample of 30, 15 year old students (determined by external agencies) will be completing this test in one of two testing sessions to be held on the following days from 9.30am to approximately 1.45 pm:

Monday 27 August 2018 - Group One

Thursday 30 August 2018 - Group Two and make up session

This is a compulsory activity and all students are expected to attend. Students in need of Learning Support will be reported to PISA, but they are to complete the process if functionally capable.

Letters have been sent home to selected students.

For more information please see link below or contact Mrs Penelope Jones.

https://www.acer.org/ozpisa

NAPLAN School Readiness Test

Cobram Secondary has been identified as a school will be transitioning to online NAPLAN testing for 2019. As a part of our preparations for this process, all Year 7 students and Year 9O students will be completing an omnibus NAPLAN test on Monday 3rd September. Year 7 students will be completing this test in the library using their laptops. Selected Year 9 students will complete the test on the library computers.

We ask that all Year 7 parents support us in the preparation and test day by ensuring that students are bringing their fully charged computers to class every day. We will be working with students in the next two weeks to load a NAPLAN Locked Down Browser that will be used to access the test. Students are also required to bring in headphones as it is possible for sections of the test to be read to them to assist with their completion of the tests.

http://www.nap.edu.au/

Reading Comprehension Testing

As a part of our ongoing commitment to reading, students completed their Reading Comprehension tests at the end of last term. These results are currently being shared with them during Illuminate, allowing them to monitor their progress. Whilst we provide information of how students are tracking against their cohort Australia wide, we focus on student growth. Where practical, each student receives an indication of their growth between testing periods. We work with students to focus on their growth descriptor. Students who achieve Growth or Optimal are celebrated with certificates. These are currently being distributed in Illuminate. Students who achieve Growth are not currently achieving the expected level for their year, but are growing at or above the expected level. Students who achieve Optimal are meeting or exceeding the expected level whilst also growing at or above expectations. Students who classified as Must Change are yet to meet growth expectations or year level benchmarks whilst Cruising students are meeting benchmarks but not growing at the expected rate.

Congratulations to the following Growth Students

PALLANTE Noah

McKEAN Kimberely

RICH Hunter

SIMPSON Taylah

POOLE Molly

FITZPATRICK Reed

COULTON-YOUNG, Declan

CASSISE Lachlan

WILKIN-THOM Isaac

ALBADRAN, Haider

HARE Riley

TEJONES Mariah

TREASE Kobe

TEJONES, Sierra

ALIBRAHEEM, Zainulabdeen

TEJONES, Levy

GARDNER, Tessa

EDDY Kayla

GATTUSO, Charlotte

NOLAN Caitlen

MURDOCH Mikala

MURDOCH Phoebe

VELUMANI Snega

HANCOCK, Angus

BROWN Joel

NOLAN, Lachlan

GRIFFIN Bailey

MADDY Kasidy

ARGUS, Shakayla

WHITE, Pharnin

PERRI, Matthew

HOWARD, Tiahna

POUSTIE, Keisha

ROBERTS Lyam

LESTER Aiden

STOATE Georgia

COLLIE, Liam

POOLE, Sam

BROOKS, Alana

ALIBRAHEEM Saif

HOOK, Jett

GOOSEY, Ryan

NOLAN, Jai

HAMSON Sharlette

PERRI, Christopher

FORSTER Teagan

POWER Madison

KARAKAI Dana

RANDALL Haylee

CORTEZ, Elmo

GOOD Kade

DEAS, Hannah

WATT-FOTIA, Angelina

CONNELLY, Jasmine

TYNIEC, Tiana

GARDNER Marley

Congratulations to our Optimal students

O'DONOGHUE, Georgia

WEBB, Emerson

THORN, Joey

SQUIRES Robert

McCRACKEN Isla

MILLER Taryn

O'TOOLE, Bella

KERR-LANGFORD Jaspar

GRAY, Xalia

HOCKING, Keira

ALNUSAIRI Ayat

SPROULES Ruby

POWER, Tanayah

WATT- FOTIA Sebastion

GRINTER Scarlett

BOYD, Chaz

CAMPBELL, Daniel

MOORE Lily

FISKE, Hayley

DEEGAN, Cody

MCNAMARA, Nakita

GEISLER, Felicity

TENNEY Brody

GRAVENER, Jessica

CICCONE Teliah

LAMPARD, Lill

PAYNE Mitchel

MCINTOSH, Ebony

SLATTERIE Tyler

McNAMARA Dante

BEASLEY, Jack

O'SHEA Tyson

BARTOLIC Taj

Boost students continue to fly!

At Year 8, students are welcomed into the Boost program to support reading growth. They attend one period per day for four days per week, completing the Fountas and Pinnell Literacy program facilitated by Ann Johnston. We continue to see amazing growth amongst this amazing and hardworking group of students.

During a the five month period between tests, we normally expect to see students grow at 0.16 Effect Size. The Boost group have far exceeded this benchmark, achieving growth of 0.21 as a cohort. We wish to extend the following students our congratulations are achieving growth at or above the expectation. We wish to give a big shout out to Tanayah who has achieved the expected level for Year 8 and is now in the Optimal group of students.