1. Module 6: Assessment Principles
The Victorian Curriculum F–10: Health and Physical Education and Personal and Social Capability, including Respectful Relationships.

2. Quality Assessment
Masters, Geoff. (2013) Reforming Educational Assessment: Imperatives, principles and challenges. Camberwell. Victoria: Australian Council for Educational Research.

3. Purpose
The fundamental purpose of assessment is to establish where learners are in their learning at the time of assessment.
Master, G. (2013). Reforming education assessment: imperatives, principles and challenges. Melbourne: ACER.

4. Quality assessment

5. Need for better educational outcomes Australia-wide
NAP – National Assessment Program
PISA – Programme for International Student Assessment
Ofsted – Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services & Skills
IBE – UNESCO – International Bureau of Education

6. Understanding learning

7. Learning Assessment System
Principle 1
Assessments should be guided by, and address, an empirically based understanding of the relevant curriculum area.

8. Empirically based curriculum
Scope and sequence documents:
Personal and social capability
Health and Physical Education

9. The structure of the Curriculum
The curriculum demonstrates an increasing proficiency/expertise within the curriculum area as a learner progresses through the levels.

10. Learning Assessment System
Construct validity
Reliability
Objectivity
Inclusivity
Feasibility
Principle 2
Assessment methods should be selected for their ability to provide useful information about where students are in their learning within the curriculum area.

11. Are the assessment items selected…

12. Learning Assessment System
Principle 3
Responses to, or performance on, assessment tasks should be recorded using one or more task ‘rubrics’

14. VCAA Assessment Strategies
Units of work, and associated rubrics explicitly assessing content from Health and Physical Education and the Personal and Social Capability areas of the Victorian Curriculum can be found on the VCAA Respectful Relationship page of the VCAA website.

15. VCAA learning continuum

16. Learning Assessment System
Principle 4
Available assessment evidence should be used to draw a conclusion about where learners are in their progress within the learning curriculum area.

17. Learning Assessment System
Principle 5
Feedback and reports of assessments should show where learners are in their learning at the time of assessment and ideally what progress they have made over time.

18. Feedback

19. Fiona Matthews VCAA Specialist Teacher Health Education and Personal and Social Capability, including Respectful Relationships