Who will monitor and review the assessment program?
Many schools appoint an HSC assessment coordinator, to oversee the school’s assessment program and to provide advice where required. An HSC review panel could be convened to evaluate policies, procedures and lines of communication on a regular basis. What are the features of quality assessment tasks? The following checklist can assist teachers to ensure that the tasks they design promote student learning as well as obtaining accurate measures of student achievement. Assessment tasks should: • focus on outcomes • give students the opportunity to demonstrate what they know and can do and assist their learning • be valid and reliable, measuring what the task purports to assess, and providing accurate information on each student’s achievement • allow for discrimination between the performances of individual students. The effective marking of assessment tasks requires: • marking guidelines or criteria that provide clear descriptions of the quality of response required to receive each mark •
