What is Monitoring?

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What is Monitoring?

• Information for panellists

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Quality assurance of Authority subjects
Monitoring poses the question How well is the
school implementing the course of study?
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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

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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

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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
• schools matching of the appropriate standards
  descriptors with the qualities of student work
  based on evidence in the sample folios
• interim levels of achievement decisions.

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Form R3
Review panel chairs provide written advice on
behalf of review panels on the Form R3. Written
advice concerns the schools implementation of
the syllabus as demonstrated by the assessment
evidence provided in the submission
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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

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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

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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