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Achievement Standard Reporting on Essential Assessment (Victorian Curriculum)
Schools following the Victorian Curriculum (VC) are required to assess and report student performance in alignment with the VC achievement standards to ensure a consistent, transparent, and data-informed assessment approach.
Our new export tool allows educators to visually track each student’s progress against their "at grade" achievement standard, ensuring a clear, data-informed approach to reporting. This information is also available on the student profile.
Why Achievement Standard Reporting matters
The Victorian Curriculum achievement standards provide a fixed frame of reference and a shared language for describing student achievement. These standards define what students should know and be able to do at the end of each year, ensuring consistency in assessment and reporting across schools.
The role of Achievement Standard Reporting:
- Ensuring curriculum alignment, and tracking student learning effectively.
- Providing teachers, students, and parents clarity about progress and next steps.
- Supporting student progression along the curriculum continuum.
Maintaining consistency in assessment judgments, particularly through the five-point scale (A–E or equivalent).
School Obligations for Assessment and Reporting
Schools following the Victorian Curriculum are required to assess and report student performance in alignment with the Victorian Curriculum achievement standards to ensure a consistent, transparent, and data-informed assessment approach.
To meet these obligations, schools must:
- Report directly against the achievement standards rather than using level or band descriptions or individual content descriptors.
- Align reporting with the defined achievement standards for each learning area and capability taught, ensuring consistency with the school’s teaching and learning programs.
- Ensure ongoing assessment is embedded in the learning process to track student progress effectively.
- Assess and formally record student performance against the Victorian Curriculum achievement standards to provide clear evidence of growth.
- Monitor student performance continuously, enabling timely interventions and instructional adjustments.
Reports must reflect both student achievement and progress, including:
- Teacher judgement(s): A professional assessment of the student’s progress against achievement standards.
- A five-point scale: A structured rating that clearly places students within the achievement continuum.
By fulfilling these requirements, schools create a cohesive and effective reporting system that supports teaching, learning, and communication with parents and stakeholders, ensuring every student’s progress is measured, monitored, and meaningfully communicated.
Accessing the Achievement Standard Reporting export
Navigate to your class and select View Class Results.
From Export Options, you'll be able to press Export Achievement Standards Statements.
The XLS document will contain colour-coded Achievement Standard Aspects (ASA) show student progress based on assessment results:
As students complete assessments, the corresponding achievement standard statements will be dynamically updated with the relevant colour coding.
- Green (≥66%) – Demonstrated
- Yellow (<66%) – Partially Demonstrated
- Red (0%) – Not Yet Demonstrated
- White (NA) - Not Assessed
The achievement standard reporting system uses a 66% threshold to determine if a student has "demonstrated" the expected performance. The Essential Assessment team write assessments that align to the individual content descriptors, which contain a high level of specificity and detail. In contrast, the achievement standard statements themselves are broader, high-level expectations. By using this 66% benchmark, teachers can be confident students have reached the expected level, even if they do not achieve 100% on every assessed component.
Accessing Achievement Standards on the student profile
Located at the bottom of each individual student profile, the Achievement Standard tab offers two key views to support your reporting process:
- Summary View: a clear, concise indication of whether the student is working towards or has achieved the standard—ideal for quick reference during report writing.
- Detailed View: the specific skills and knowledge demonstrated by the student, offering curriculum-aligned evidence to support your summary judgement.
These insights are designed to help you confidently meet reporting expectations, with everything you need in one convenient location.
Achievement standard aspects are in the same order and the same paragraphs as per curriculum. They are highlighted based on student understanding, with the same colours as per the exported report.
The Future of Achievement Standard Reporting with Essential Assessment
By strengthening the connection between assessments, achievement standards, and reporting, Essential Assessment ensures:
- Alignment with the Victorian Curriculum and school reporting requirements.
- Real-time, curriculum-aligned student data for teachers.
- Personalised learning experiences based on data insights.
- Clear, accessible reporting for teachers and school leaders.
Through curriculum-aligned assessments, robust reporting tools, and data-driven insights, Essential Assessment transforms reporting into a powerful tool for student growth and success.