5.3 Make consistent and comparable judgments
Demonstrate understanding of assessment moderation and its application to support consistent and comparable judgments of student learning.
What is moderation?
Moderation is an activity where teachers and other leadership team members check the accuracy of other teachers' assessments of students. This may occur externally or internally within a school or educational institution where they look at the final stages of students assessments to gauge if it demonstrates the necessary skills that are outlined in the curriculum. Moderation assures others about consistency against the standards. Key considerations include; standards, evidence and agreement.
Moderation is a quality assurance process that ensures appropriate standards.
It is a process for ensuring that marks or grades are awarded appropriately and consistently.
It is a form of feedback to assessors to help them align their marking standards with those of other markers.
Some of the benefits of moderation?
Demonstrate understanding of assessment moderation and its application to support consistent and comparable judgments of student learning.
What is moderation?
Moderation is an activity where teachers and other leadership team members check the accuracy of other teachers' assessments of students. This may occur externally or internally within a school or educational institution where they look at the final stages of students assessments to gauge if it demonstrates the necessary skills that are outlined in the curriculum. Moderation assures others about consistency against the standards. Key considerations include; standards, evidence and agreement.
Moderation is a quality assurance process that ensures appropriate standards.
It is a process for ensuring that marks or grades are awarded appropriately and consistently.
It is a form of feedback to assessors to help them align their marking standards with those of other markers.
Some of the benefits of moderation?
- Students have confidence that learning demonstrating similar achievement is judge at a similar standard.
- Teachers refine practice and develop insights into the learning needs of students .
- Schools have confidence that their standards are comparable with other schools across the state.
- Parents have confidence in the information provided by schools about the achievement and learning needs of students.
- Systems can identify learner trends and communicate information to schools; support public confidence in the system.
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