CBC assessment & report cards · Kenya
A report card that speaks CBC, not percentages
Learning areas, strands and sub-strands. Performance levels 1 to 4, with the raw score kept underneath as evidence rather than printed as the headline. Core competencies and values on the same card, and the national assessment named where it belongs.
How a term actually runs
A teacher opens a mark sheet. Any teacher, for any class and any subject the school teaches. There is no allocation table to keep in step first, because schools cover absences, split streams and hand subjects over mid-term — and a teacher who has marked a pile of scripts should not have to find an administrator before typing the results in. The one rule kept is that a subject must belong to the class’s own education level: Grade 4 Science and Grade 8 Science are not the same subject.
The whole class saves at once. A sheet is typed or pasted in one pass and written in a single transaction, so a lost signal halfway down a class of forty does not leave half a mark sheet. Only what actually changed is written, and every edit carries who made it and when.
Marks are moderated, then released — by different people. Entry, moderation and release are three separate rights. The teacher who marked cannot publish; the head who publishes did not mark. Nothing reaches a parent until the release gate is opened, and opening it is recorded.
The card is generated, then it is a document. The school’s own crest, name and head teacher’s signature — not ours. A parent opens the same card in their portal and saves it as a PDF; the office prints the identical document from the same component, so the counter and the phone never disagree.
What is on the card
- Learning areas — with strands and sub-strands beneath them, as CBC is structured
- Performance levels 1–4 — Below Expectation, Approaching, Meeting, Exceeding
- Evidence count — how many tasks stand behind each level
- Core competencies and values — rated on the same card, not a separate sheet
- KPSEA at Grade 6, KJSEA at Grade 9 — named where the grade actually sits them
- Class position — only if the school switches it on. Off by default, because ranking a Grade 2 child is a choice a school should make deliberately
Questions we are asked
- What does a CBC report card show instead of marks?
- A performance level for each learning area — 1 Below Expectation, 2 Approaching, 3 Meeting, 4 Exceeding — with the raw score kept underneath as the evidence for that level rather than printed as the headline. Core competencies and values sit on the same card.
- Who can release results to parents?
- Only somebody holding the release right, normally the head. Entering marks, moderating them and releasing them are three separate permissions, so the teacher who marked a script cannot publish it and the head who publishes it did not mark it.
- Can any teacher upload results?
- Yes. A teacher signs in, opens a mark sheet for any class and any subject the school teaches, and types or pastes the whole class at once. There is no allocation table to maintain first — schools cover absences and hand subjects over mid-term.
- Does it handle KPSEA and KJSEA?
- The card names the national assessment a grade sits — KPSEA at Grade 6, KJSEA at Grade 9 — so a Grade 6 card reads as a Grade 6 card.
- Can parents see the report card?
- Once it is released, yes: in the parent portal, on their own phone, as a printable page they can save as a PDF. A school can choose to hold results while fees are outstanding, and that choice is recorded in the audit log.