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CHAPTER 6 | reporting student achievement
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REPORTING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
Report Card Requirements
Beginning in the 2010–2011 school year, the following new or revised reports will be used in all publicly funded schools in Ontario:
• the Elementary Progress Report Cards and the Elementary Provincial Report Cards (Grades 1–6 and Grades 7 and 8)
• the Provincial Report Card, Grades 9–12
No changes of any kind should be made to these documents, apart from the provisions for Catholic district school boards and for board development of sections of the Progress Report Cards for Grades 1 to 8, as outlined below, in the section “Versions of the Reports”.
A template for each of the reports is provided in Appendix 2 of this document.
Once the progress report cards and the provincial report cards have been completed, copies should be printed out on letter-size (8.5 by 11 in.) paper. Comments about student achievement should be in nine-point type, for legibility.
It should be noted that the paper used to produce the documents must be suitable for long-term storage as set out in section 3.2.1.3 of The Ontario Student Record (OSR): Guideline, 2000.
Ontario Student Record (OSR)
Completed Elementary Progress Report Cards (all pages) and elementary and secondary provincial report cards (all pages), and/or exact copies of them, will be placed in each student’s Ontario Student Record (OSR) folder following each reporting period.
Ontario Student Transcript (OST)
The Ontario Student Transcript (OST) is a cumulative and continuous record of:
1) a student’s successful completion of Grade 9 and 10 courses;
2) all the student’s attempts, successful and unsuccessful, at completing Grade 11 and 12 courses; 3) the student’s completion of other diploma requirements.
Specific information about the OST can be found in Ontario Secondary Schools, Grades 9 to 12: Program and Diploma Requirements, 1999 (currently under revision). Information about the completion of the OST can be found in The Ontario Student Transcript (OST): Manual, 2010.
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