1. What is Monitoring? Information for panellists

2. Quality assurance of Authority subjects 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 five sample student folios (or the whole cohort, if less than five) 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 of 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 on 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. Random sampling Quality assurance process to ensure the effectiveness of moderation Subjects, schools and students are selected at random Folios are reviewed by panellists and feedback provided to the QSA regarding standards Panellists may be asked to complete a random sampling review at monitoring

9. 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