The information contained in this VCAL Quality Assurance Kit is aimed at providing clear guidelines for the quality assurance of teachers’ professional judgements about assessment of VCAL units and the design of VCAL unit tasks.
Quality Assurance (QA) is an important part of the VCAL and all Principals/Directors should allow appropriate staff to participate in the QA process and attend QA meetings if required to do so. Providers who do not participate in the regional VCAL quality assurance process may be required to submit all their VCAL units to an audit by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA).
The VCAA has revised the VCAL QA process for 2012. All VCAL providers will be allocated to one of three categories for 2012. For further information on the 3 categories please refer to the VCAA Notice to Schools 176/2011 at the following web link http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/correspondence/notices/2011/176.html
The Quality Assurance information is also available in print format:
Purpose of the Quality Assurance Process
Outlines the objectives of the Quality Assurance process and why a Quality Assurance Panel will be established.
Quality Assurance Dates
Submission dates for the two stages of the Quality Assurance process.
VCAL Unit Sample Assessment Task Templates
A list of sample assessment task templates are available for download.
VCAL Provider Quality Assurance
Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the Quality Assurance process for new and existing VCAL providers.
Senior Extension Units Quality Assurance
Stages 1 and 2 of the Quality Assurance process for new and existing VCAL providers of Senior Extension Units.
Privacy Requirements
Advice for providers regarding the use of student's work for the Quality Assurance process.
VCAL Exemplar Units
The VCAL Exemplars page contains examples of “best practice” VCAL units.