Moderation provides a state-wide opportunity for teachers to share expertise and build confidence that achievement standards are consistently understood. This supports consistency across the state regardless of the sector, class, subject or school.
Expected outcomes:
- improve teacher understanding and consistency in their approaches to making judgements against the standards for the course
- enhance student learning outcomes as this understanding is applied to student feedback
- enable teachers to engage in structured conversation to articulate evidence of student learning in work samples at a point in time
- give teachers the opportunity to compare how they derived their own ratings with colleagues from different schools with a range of learners.
Schools are supported to moderate with other schools through the organisation of dedicated Moderation days.
Senior Secondary Moderation
Senior Secondary Provision organise cross-sectoral moderation days to support moderation of senior secondary courses.
Years 9 and 10 Moderation
Moderation in DECYP schools is supported by the Teaching and Learning team. For more information about moderation for Years 9 and 10 students in government schools visit the Teaching and Learning Centre.
Packages of Learning teachers have the opportunity to moderate student work annually.
