What is Monitoring?Information for panellists

Quality assurance of Authority subjects

Monitoring poses the question:

“How well is the school implementing the course of study?”

What is in a monitoring submission?• Form R3• Copy of the approved work program• Clean copies of assessment tasks (including data

on conditions)• Minimum of five sample student folios (or the

whole cohort, if less than five)• 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 of

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 R3Review panel chairs provide written advice on behalf of review panels on the Form R3.

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

Random sampling• Quality assurance process to ensure the

effectiveness of moderation• Subjects, schools and students are selected at

random• Folios are reviewed by panellists and feedback

provided to the QSA regarding standards

• Panellists may be asked to complete a random sampling review at monitoring

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