5. Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning
Focus |
Graduate |
Proficient |
Highly Accomplished |
Lead |
5.1 Assess student learning |
Demonstrate understanding of assessment strategies, including informal and formal, diagnostic, formative and summative approaches to assess student learning. |
Develop, select and use informal and formal, diagnostic, formative and summative assessment strategies to assess student learning. |
Develop and apply a comprehensive range of assessment strategies to diagnose learning needs, comply with curriculum requirements and support colleagues to evaluate the effectiveness of their approaches to assessment. |
Evaluate school assessment policies and strategies to support colleagues with: using assessment data to diagnose learning needs, complying with curriculum, system and/or school assessment requirements and using a range of assessment strategies. |
5.2 Provide feedback to students on their learning |
Demonstrate an understanding of the purpose of providing timely and appropriate feedback to students about their learning. |
Provide timely, effective and appropriate feedback to students about their achievement relative to their learning goals. |
Select from an effective range of strategies to provide targeted feedback based on informed and timely judgements of each student’s current needs in order to progress learning. |
Model exemplary practice and initiate programs to support colleagues in applying a range of timely, effective and appropriate feedback strategies. |
5.3 Make consistent and comparable judgements |
Demonstrate understanding of assessment moderation and its application to support consistent and comparable judgements of student learning. |
Understand and participate in assessment moderation activities to support consistent and comparable judgements of student learning. |
Organise assessment moderation activities that support consistent and comparable judgements of student learning. |
Lead and evaluate moderation activities that ensure consistent and comparable judgements of student learning to meet curriculum and school or system requirements. |
5.4 Interpret student data |
Demonstrate the capacity to interpret student assessment data to evaluate student learning and modify teaching practice. |
Use student assessment data to analyse and evaluate student understanding of subject/content, identifying interventions and modifying teaching practice. |
Work with colleagues to use data from internal and external student assessments for evaluating learning and teaching, identifying interventions and modifying teaching practice. |
Co-ordinate student performance and program evaluation using internal and external student assessment data to improve teaching practice. |
5.5 Report on student achievement |
Demonstrate understanding of a range of strategies for reporting to students and parents/carers and the purpose of keeping accurate and reliable records of student achievement. |
Report clearly, accurately and respectfully to students and parents/carers about student achievement, making use of accurate and reliable records. |
Work with colleagues to construct accurate, informative and timely reports to students and parents/carers about student learning and achievement. |
Evaluate and revise reporting and accountability mechanisms in the school to meet the needs of students, parents/carers and colleagues. |