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Making Consistent Judgements

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• Objective Reference for Judgements
• MSE Marking Guides
• MSE Marking Procedures
• Links to Marker Training

This section of the MSE web site gives procedures that facilitate consistent teacher judgements when assessing performance tasks.

Making consistent judgements about student performance can be difficult to achieve. Whether the performance is in dance, writing, speaking, a game or making something, judgements are made and subjective preferences come into play.

One teacher's consistency of judgement over time can be difficult to maintain, as can consistent judgements between teachers in the same school or in different schools across the state.

These MSE marking procedures can be implemented by you, either individually or in your school or district.

Objective Reference for Judgements

The Student Outcome Statements are the reference for consistent teacher judgements across the state. They are the yardstick by which student performance is judged and interpreted.

All MSE assessments are developed using the Curriculum Framework and the Student Outcome Statements, and student performance is reported using the levels of the Student Outcome Statements.

MSE Marking Guides

MSE marking guides are developed to assess specific tasks, and the assessment criteria focus on key indicators of performance for those tasks. The guides are therefore more specific than the strand outcomes described in the Student Outcome Statements. They give more detail about what a student has achieved and they enhance reliable judgement.

MSE Marking Procedures

These marking procedures will develop teachers' capacity to make judgements about students' work using the Student Outcome Statements.

MSE uses rigorous procedures to train markers to make consistent judgements about student performances from the Random Sample program. Markers are trained to use standardised marking guides, in conjunction with student work samples, to judge student work. Reliability procedures are used to ensure any two markers would score the same performance in the same way, or one marker would score any two scripts that are of a similar standard consistently.

By using MSE marking procedures to make consistent teacher judgements, teachers and schools can be assured that their judgements will
· accord with the Student Outcome Statements
· be similar to those used by markers of the Random Sample
· be similar to other teachers using MSE procedures

The result of these procedures will be that schools, the system and the community can be assured that judgements made using the procedures will be consistent over time and from place to place.

Links to Marker Training

Product Assessment in Technology and Enterprise
This link shows you how to make consistent judgements about the products your students have made during the MSE T&E assessment tasks.

Performance Assessment in English
This link tells you about the MSE Speaking and Writing Marker Training Materials.

Performance Assessment in Health and Physical Education This link tells you about the MSE Interpersonal Skills and Skills for Physical Activity Marker Training Materials.

Performance Assessment in LOTE (Italian, Indonesian, French and Japanese)
This link tells you about the MSE LOTE Speaking Marker Training Materials.