Result Group

Group of subject assessment areas that this area is a part of.

Tip: Use to create groups if you have a large number of assessment areas to manage. You can work with the groups instead of each individual assessment area in Student Results Maintenance. See Student Results Maintenance - Single Student tab.

Note: Values are maintained in the luReportResultGroup lookup table. See luReportResultGroup lookup table in the System maintenance manual.

Result Type

Result values available for the subject assessment area.

Result types restrict the valid values that you can enter in this field. This is so that the data presented on reports is consistent.

Once you have selected a result type you can click next to the External Link field to link an external learning standard to the result type.

Note: Values are maintained in the luReportResultType lookup table. See luReportResultType lookup table in the System maintenance manual.

External Link

Identifier to link to a relevant external learning standard. Click if you do not know the learning standard identifier.

The following external learning standards are currently supported:

• AusVELS assessment areas, such as for German language, until replaced by Victorian Curriculum F–10
• NCEA (New Zealand National Certificate of Education Achievement) are currently supported
• Victorian Curriculum.

  Note: The Result Type selected must have the relevant SynergyMeaning specified in the lookup table. Currently, result types with a SynergyMeaning of VICCURRIC and NCEA are supported. See luReportResultType lookup table in the System maintenance manual.

Default Result Classification

Result classification to use by default when entering student results. See:

• Student Results Maintenance - Single Student tab
• Student Results Maintenance - All Students tab
• Student Results Maintenance - Assessment tab.

The result classification is used in:

• Australian organisations to indicate students whose results are not comparable to other students in the class, such as students in a modified program

• New Zealand schools to withdraw students from an NCEA standard

• organisations using the Victorian Curriculum to indicate the reason why students given the (DNP) Did Not Participate result are unable to complete the selected assessment.

  Note: You must enter a result classification when a student is given the (DNP) Did Not Participate result.

The classifications are maintained in the luReportResultClassification lookup table. See luReportResultClassification lookup table in the System maintenance manual.

Note: The Classification field is only displayed in student results if the Show Result Classification field is selected for the subject assessment. See Subject Assessment Maintenance - Summary tab - Summary sub-tab.

Heading

Assessment area name.

Abbrev Heading 1 /

Abbrev Heading 2

Abbreviation of the Heading field.

The abbreviated headings are shown in Student Results Maintenance.

Last Lesson in Sending Group

No longer used, but available for legacy queries.

Note: This field is only available if the SubjectAssessments|ShowLastLesson configuration setting is set to true. See Maintaining configuration files in the System maintenance manual.

Allow Auto-Pick

No longer used, but available for legacy queries.

Note: This field is only available if the SubjectAssessments|ShowAutoPick configuration setting is set to true. See Maintaining configuration files in the System maintenance manual.

Overview

Subject overview of what this area represents or covers.

For example, a science class area for biology might explain how the class looks at genetics, the role of gender in animal reproduction and inherited characteristics, and so on.

Provider

External course provider.

Context

Subject that the external course provider is responsible for.

This is required for NCEA exports from New Zealand schools. NCEA is part of the New Zealand National Qualifications Framework. See the National Certificates of Educational Achievement web site.

Search for linked learning standards.

For example, if the Result Type has a SynergyMeaning of Victorian Curriculum the Victorian Curriculum Search window is displayed.

To select a learning standard:

1. Enter search criteria to narrow the search, if required.
2. Select the required learning standard.
3. Click .

   The External Link field is populated with the learning standard identifier.

   

See:

• Creating new AusVELS Curriculum subject assessment areas
• Creating new Victorian Curriculum subject assessment areas.

  Note: The following message is displayed if the Result Type does not have a valid SynergyMeaning that links to external learning standards.
  
  Check the Result Type, and that its SynergyMeaning has a valid value such as VICCURRIC.

View the linked external learning standard.

Insert a new assessment area before the position of the current assessment area.

See Inserting new subject assessment areas from the Area sub-tab.

Move the assessment area to another position in the list.

See Moving an assessment area to another sequence.

Merge one or more assessment areas with the current assessment area.

See Merging other assessment areas into the current assessment area.

Generate the Abbreviated Heading fields based on the Heading field.

To update the abbreviated headings:

1. Click .

   The following dialog window is displayed.

   

2. Click

   The fields are updated.

   

Show on Screen

Select this field to have the result as well as the heading for the subject assessment area displayed on the Student Results Maintenance window.

In the following example, the calculated Aggregate Monthly Test Results 'assessment area' is displayed.

If you clear this field, the assessment area is not displayed. This is useful for:

• Calculated 'assessment areas' that are used for calculating or summarising results, and used in subsequent formulas. You may decide that the teachers do not need to see these intermediate calculations.
• Old 'assessment areas' such as Average, which have been superseded by the Weighted Average 'assessment area' that you want to keep for the present.

Force Read Only

Clear the field to allow users to enter or edit results on the Student Results Maintenance window. This is the default setting.

Select the field to prevent the assessment area from being updated on the Student Results Maintenance window. The heading and the values are greyed out, preventing users from overriding the calculated results.

In the following example the calculated Aggregate Monthly Test Results 'assessment area' is displayed on the screen but cannot be edited.

Print on Report

Print the assessment area item on the academic report.

Mark Out of

Specify the maximum numeric value for the mark.

Overall Result

Select if this is to be the overall result for the students.

Overall Seq

If Overall Result is selected this:

• is the sequence this assessment area appears on the report within any other overall results
• can be used to identify one overall result from another for the reports.

Overall Seq 1 and Overall Seq 2 results appear in the Classes tab of Current Student Maintenance. See Current Student Maintenance - Classes tab in the Current students manual.

Weighting Factor

Priority that this assessment is to take in the calculated result.

For example, a weighting factor of 1 is greater than a weighting factor of 0.5.

Summarise to Area

Subject assessments can be combined to produce a single calculated result.

Select a subject assessment from this drop-down list to link the current subject assessment to the selected subject assessment.

See Traditional method of summarising and linking assessment areas.

Expected Result for Area

Select an option from the drop-down list to use the current subject assessment area to enter the expected result of the selected subject assessment area. See Creating subject assessment areas for entering expected results.

When results are entered they are linked to the actual result and displayed on reports to show how far the student progressed during the reporting period.

Note: You cannot delete a subject assessment area that is being used to store an expected result. You must clear this field before Synergetic will allow you to delete the subject assessment area.

Switch to the Summary tab to maintain information about the subject assessment associated with the current subject assessment areas. See Maintaining subject assessments.

Create a new subject assessment area. See Creating new subject assessment areas.

Delete a subject assessment area, if:

• it is not referenced in calculations by other areas
• there are no results entered for the area.

Open the Set Subject Assessment Search Criteria window. See Searching for subjects and assessment areas.

Move to the sub-tab on the left of the current sub-tab of the Area tab.

Move to the sub-tab on the right of the current sub-tab of the Area tab.