MarkBook Combined Reports Screen

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Setting Up Combined Mark Set Reports
When you have more than one Mark Set for a group of students, and entries for individuals in two or more of these, use MarkBook's Combined Report function to produce an overall grade. See section 4-3 for more information on the creation and use of Mark Sets. When combining Mark Sets for an overall grade, the individual Mark Sets may be weighted equally (the default) or they may be re-weighted in any manner defined by the user. Print individual or class Combined Reports.

"COMBINED REPORT" EXAMPLE 1: MULTIPLE SUBJECTS

To amalgamate data from two or more Mark Sets, click on Reports in the menu bar at the top of the main operating screen, section 3-1, and select Combined Mark Sets. You will get a screen similar to this one. Here, you can see (and edit!) the relative weightings of the contributing subjects and the overall performance of individual students taking those subjects. This first sample has three subjects (Mark Sets) for class 7X.

Multi-subject Report Screen

The students are listed down the left side. If the Ranked Order cell is off, students will be listed in alpha order. Also note that the Round Off cell is checked - data displays to the nearest percentage integer. If this cell is not checked, data will display to the nearest single decimal place.

The calculation of central tendency for each Mark Set appears at the top of each column. Each Mark Set's relative weighting appears in the chart at the upper right. Note in the example that the teacher has weighted English more than the two other subjects.

Select any student by clicking on that student's name or row. Select a specific subject by clicking in that column e.g. ENG1 is currently selected. A category breakdown of the student's performance in that subject will appear in the box at the lower right.

To change the percentage weight of any subject, click on the Set Weighting tab near the top of this screen and edit the subject weights. The other tabs provide Class and Student Reports functions, several analytical displays such as Distribution, and Modal Analysis, and overall grades displayed on your Seating grid.

To make an HTML web page for this Combined Report, click the HTML tab. To print combined reports, click the Print tab.

"COMBINED REPORT" EXAMPLE 2: AN ADDITIONAL CLASSIFICATION LEVEL WITH SOME LOW WEIGHTS

The Phys Ed teacher who set up this "Healthy Active Living" class decided to use 11 Mark Sets to subdivide her assessments. The are five course curriculum units (HAL1 to HAL5) plus an exam (EXAM) plus five Learning Skills (LS1 to LS5) making up these eleven Mark Sets.

By setting up the course this way, she has given herself the extra classification level afforded by MarkBook. Furthermore, she can vary the contribution of categories within each set. For instance, the "participation" category counts for 50% of the overall assessment in HAL4 but only 10% in HAL5. If appropriate, she could have unique categories in each Mark Set. To get a final grade, she has used Combined Report to bring her eleven Mark Sets together into an overall grade.

Alter the weights of any sets by single clicking a cell in the Target column and entering a new number. This edit is under way with the Examination set - note the edit box with 642 is open. Replace this number with a new one and push Enter on the keyboard.

Note that the Targets do not have to add up to 100 - they can add to a smaller or larger number - 2142.5 as indicated in the upper right in this example. MarkBook will convert each Target integer to an Actual % based on its relative or pro-rata contribution - 642/2142.5 = 30% for the exam in this example. The Learning Skills in this example are very lightly weighted - less than 0.1% each. This is a policy decision by this teacher's jurisdiction - she must measure and report the Learning Skills but they must not contribute to each student's overall grade. In this example, each Learning Skill counts for less than 0.1% of the overall grade. In other words, she is tracking them and can report them but they don't count in the calculation of the overall grade.

Use the button for direct access to the Comments for Combined Mark Sets. MarkBook will build and store up to 10 sets of comments for a Combined Report. You also have access to the Anecdotal Notes as described in section 3-3.

PRINTING COMBINED MARK SET REPORTS

Two types of reports are available - a whole-class report and individual student reports. Select either tab near the top of the Combined Report screen and then select the options you would like printed. MarkBook reports the number of pages required for your selections near the bottom centre. See section 9-7 for a sample printout of an individual's Combined Mark Set report.

This first CLASS REPORT screen offers several options. Select your choices and click Print Class Report button at the lower right. Note the page count at the bottom centre.

Printing Options for a Combined Report

This HTML Report screen builds a web page to post data on the Internet. Any message may be typed and edited in the large window at the lower left. MarkBook remembers the last message. A spell checker underlines spelling errors. To exclude students from the report, click once on their names. MarkBook remembers this exclusion. Only Code Names are allowed on this report and students are listed in alpha order by Code Name. A pair of brackets <<>> sandwiches deleted names. Click Create the HTML page to build a web page file. Use FTP or other means for posting this new file on the web.

Printing Options for a Combined Report

Manual: Go to section 8-3 to see a spreadsheet style listing of assessments.