What is verification? Information for panellists

Quality assurance of Authority subjects Verification is the process by which review panels advise schools about Year 12 student achievement relative to syllabus standards descriptors

What is in a verification submission? Form R6 Copy of the approved work program Clean copies of assessment tasks Minimum of nine sample student folios (or the whole cohort, if less than nine) with completed profiles Documentation of student performances and other evidence as specified by the syllabus

Role of panellists at verification Look for evidence in sample folios to support school judgments about student responses Pre-review submissions prior to the verification meeting Complete detailed pre-review notes to record findings Conduct further reviews at the verification meeting and complete detailed review notes Conference with other panellists to construct a consensus report for each school submission

Role of review panel At verification, review panels consider: interim level of achievement decisions the appropriateness of schools’ judgments about student responses to assessment instruments relative to the syllabus standards descriptors the effectiveness of assessment in providing opportunities for students to demonstrate the syllabus general objectives across the range of standards coverage of the course as demonstrated by evidence in the verification submission

Form R6 Review panel chairs provide written advice on behalf of review panels on the Form R6. Written advice concerns the appropriateness of interim levels of achievement decisions relative to syllabus standards descriptors

Written advice to schools Provide clear, concise, constructive, factual, respectful and relevant advice about the: school’s decisions as evidenced in sample folios quality of assessment and judgments, based on the syllabus and evidence cited from the verification submission evidence found ― advice does not pre-empt or make assumptions about future events