Outcomes-Based Reporting

Outcomes-Based Reporting

What is outcomes-based reporting?

Outcomes-based reporting is when student learning is assessed and understood against an outcome and communicated using an achievement indicator. Outcomes-based reporting clearly describes how well your child demonstrates the essential skills, knowledge and attitudes identified in each course.

As a parent, you can better understand how to work with teachers to support your child’s learning by looking at the outcomes within each course. Through these outcomes, areas of strength and growth can be explored with your child in an ongoing dialogue that leads to developing goals and strategies to support continued learning and success.

The report card is one component of communicating student learning. In addition to the report card, schools communicate with parents about student progress on an ongoing basis in various ways. Some other ways to learn how your child is doing are conversations with your child and your child’s teachers, celebrations of learning and conferences.

What is assessment?

• Assessment means gathering information about what your child knows, understands, and can show the teacher based on the Alberta curriculum or a student’s Individualized Program Plan (IPP). 

• Assessment refers to the process of collecting, interpreting, and communicating information about a student’s progress in relation to the learning outcomes.

How will my child's progress in relation to the learning outcomes be reported?

Student’s progress in relation to the learning outcomes will be assigned a 1-5 grade as they progess through the curriculum.

• 5 = Student demonstrates excelling performance by extending their learning and applying their knowledge of the learner outcomes. 

• 4 = Student demonstrates meeting performance which indicates a proficient understanding of the learner outcomes. 

• 3 = Student demonstrates  approaching performance which indicates an understanding of the learner outcomes. 

• 2 = Student demonstrates a developing understanding of the learner outcomes.

• 1 = Student is experiencing difficulty meeting learner outcomes. 

What will my student's PowerSchool look like?

• The main change is that rather than teachers inputting individual assignments, a set of essential skills & procedures will be reported (essentially goals that students work to meet by the end of the academic school year).

  • For example, if the goal is to count to 1000 by the end of the year, in October, a student's achievement for this goal might be marked as a 2, indicating they are developing understanding. As they continue working on this goal throughout the year, their grade may be reported as a 4, which means that they are now meeting performance.

Keep in mind that:

• The skills and procedures listed in your student's grade will be the same all year. 

• The reported grade represents your student's current progress in relation to the learning outcome (year-end goal).

• The report card will look the same as the previous ones.