What is monitoring Information for panellists Quality assurance
- Slides: 8
What is monitoring? Information for panellists
Quality assurance of Authority subjects Syllabus development Work program approval Monitoring Verification Monitoring poses the question: ‘How well is the school implementing the course of study? ’ Comparability Confirmation Random sampling
What is in a monitoring submission? • Form R 3 • Copy of the approved work program • Clean copies of assessment tasks (including data on conditions) • Minimum of two sample student folios (unless the cohort has only one student) • Documentation of student performances
Role of panellists at monitoring • Look for evidence in sample folios to support school judgments about student responses. • Review submissions prior to the monitoring meeting. • Complete detailed pre-review notes to record your findings. • Conduct further reviews at the monitoring meeting and complete detailed review notes. • Conference with other panellists to construct a consensus report for each school submission.
Role of review panel At monitoring, review panels consider the: • implementation of the relevant senior syllabus • effectiveness of assessment instruments in offering students opportunities to demonstrate syllabus general objectives and standards • school’s matching of the appropriate standards descriptors with the qualities of student work based on evidence in the sample folios • interim levels of achievement decisions.
Form R 3 Review panel chairs provide written advice on behalf of review panels with the Form R 3. Written advice concerns the school’s implementation of the syllabus as demonstrated by the assessment evidence provided in the submission.
Written advice to schools • Based on evidence found in the submission • Clear, concise, constructive, factual, respectful and relevant • Language reflects the spirit of cooperation and professional respect • Point in time ― does not pre-empt or make assumptions about future events
Observers at monitoring meetings • A limited number of observers may attend meetings. • Schools may request that teachers be allowed to attend as observers. • District panel chairs may also make requests. • District coordinators are informed of all requests and manage the process.