Consistent teacher judgement of student learning
It is important that the information reported to parents, teachers and students on student learning is accurate and consistent throughout the school and the NT.
Moderation
Moderation is the process where teachers discuss and reach agreement about demonstrations of learning. This ensures that judgements teachers make are the same as would be made by other teachers.
Moderation is essential for ensuring the quality and consistency of teacher judgements of student performance. It builds on the principles of assessment and involves teachers working together to review the evidence of student performance.
The main feature of moderation is the collaborative, peer review of evidence in student evidence files and the judgements made about that evidence. Agreement or consensus is reached through a process of comparing the features of the evidence against the band levels in the NTCF. Moderation is most effective when teachers use collaborative protocols to guide the process to authentic consensus.
Schools are encouraged to conduct in-school moderation activities and contribute to regional moderation events with the view of improving their understanding and capability of ensuring consistency in their judgements of student achievement.
Teacher reflection collated as a result in participation in the regional and NT Standards Validation activities have been recorded in moderation hints and tips. Summary reports on regional Standards Validation activities have been distributed to principals in all clusters.
- Information paper (pdf 22Kb)
- School-based moderation processes flowchart (pdf 14Kb)
- Context sheet - work sample (word 55Kb)
- Example (word 89Kb)
- Cover sheet - collection of work samples (word 58Kb)
- Charts
- Comprehensive (pdf 53Kb)
- Emerging (pdf 46Kb)
- Solid (pdf 41Kb)
- Comparison of Rich Tasks with More Traditional Tasks (pdf 15Kb)
- Developing a common language
- Maths (pdf 23Kb)
- Reading and viewing (pdf 15Kb)
- Science (pdf 17Kb)
- SOSE (pdf 15Kb)
- Writing (pdf 14Kb)
- FAQ - Cross School Moderation preparation (pdf 39Kb)
- Feedback protocols (pdf 24Kb)
- Moderation protocols (pdf 26Kb)
- Student consent form (word 52Kb)
Moderation hints and tips
- Assessment design (pdf 81Kb)
- Listening and speaking (pdf 53Kb)
- Mathematics (pdf 55Kb)
- Reading (pdf 101Kb)
- Writing (pdf 56Kb)
Semester 1 2008 Moderation
| Cluster | Information | Faxback (Coordinators) |
Faxback (Participants) |
| Arnhem | pdf 39Kb | word 34Kb | word 44Kb |
| Central Australia | pdf 40Kb | word 33Kb | word 45Kb |
| Darwin | pdf 42Kb | word 36Kb | word 52Kb |
| Rivers | pdf 38Kb | word 38Kb | word 45Kb |