Consistency of teacher judgement

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Consistency of teacher judgement

• Technology subjects (7-12)

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What is consistency?

• Consistency in relation to assessment occurs when
  teachers are able to make judgements about
  student learning that are not dependent on the
  individual teacher, student, location or time and
  are based on a shared understanding of syllabus
  standards of learning.

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Consistency of assessment judgements

• Consistency of assessment judgements needs to
  occur
• across assessment tasks
• across teachers of different classes at a school
• across time (over a period of years)
• across schools.

• Establishing procedures and structures to provide
  sufficient time on a regular basis for teacher
  professional dialogue about teaching, learning
  and assessment is the key to enhancing
  consistency.

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How is consistency developed?

• Consistency comes about when teachers work
  collaboratively
• to plan teaching programs which clearly state the
  intended learning
• to develop common understandings of assessment
  practices and/or tasks which reflect the syllabus
  
• to examine student work against the standard of
  the syllabus.

• The single biggest issue facing teachers as they
  design assessments has nothing to do with
  assessment per se but with having a clear
  understanding of the learning outcomes they
  should have for students. (Arter 1998)

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Faculty planning for consistency
The teachers of each technology subject in the
school should collaborate to

• discuss and interpret the intentions of the
  syllabus and the syllabus standards
• prepare course plans, units of work and
  assessment plans (aligned to reporting periods)
  that reflect syllabus outcomes, content and
  requirements
• prepare assessment tasks, including agreed
  assessment criteria, to reflect the syllabus
  standards
• implement moderation processes that enable
  consistent and comparable judgements to be made
  about the work of the cohort of students.

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Contacts

• Lyndall Foster
• Lyndall.foster_at_det.nsw.edu.au
• [phone]
• Bill Blake
• bill.blake_at_det.nsw.edu.au
• [phone]