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Externally moderated school-based assessment in Queensland: lessons for implementing an Australian curriculum

In Queensland, senior secondary teachers are responsible for designing assessment programs&#160,and making judgments about the standards achieved by their students. These judgments are&#160,based on evidence that must stand up to external scrutiny. Queensland&#8217,s moderation process&#160,supported by professional training provided by the Queensland Studies Authority (QSA),&#160,enhances teachers&#8217, capacity to make comparable judgments about the quality of student work.&#160,From 2013, an Australian curriculum in senior secondary English, Mathematics, Science and&#160,History will be introduced with content outlined and achievement standards described in&#160,terms of the qualities of learning expected each year. Queensland senior secondary school&#160,teachers already have some experience in this and will be looking for evidence in folios of&#160,student work matched against standard descriptors over five levels to make judgments about&#160,student achievement.This presentation will examine the relationship between the theory that has informed the&#160,practice of externally moderated school-based assessment in Queensland and the practicalapplication of this in the development of classroom assessment practices for an Australian&#160,curriculum across P-12. This will be explored through annotated student responses to&#160,assessment instruments using current standards descriptors in Queensland senior syllabuses&#160,for English, Mathematics, Science and History.

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