1. Information for panellists
What is monitoring?
Information for panellists

2. Quality assurance of Authority subjects
Syllabus development
Work program approval
Monitoring
Verification
Comparability
Random sampling
Confirmation
Monitoring poses the question:
‘How well is the school implementing the course of study?’

3. 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 two sample student folios (unless the cohort has only one student)
Documentation of student performances

4. 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 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.

5. 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
school’s matching of the appropriate standards descriptors with the qualities of student work based on evidence in the sample folios
interim levels of achievement decisions.

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

7. 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

8. 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.