VCAL Quality Assurance 2008
Purpose of the Quality Assurance Process
The QA process ensures that there is a common understanding and consistency among teachers regarding assessment judgements and the design of assessment tasks for the VCAL levels.
The QA process provides an opportunity for teachers to clarify their ideas about the appropriate VCAL level and tasks for students. The process is also an excellent professional development opportunity for teachers.
A VCAL QA Panel will be established in each Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) region to:
- establish regional benchmarks for consistency in assessment of VCAL levels and VCAL learning outcomes
- provide advice to VCAL providers that will enable them to confidently design VCAL unit assessment tasks and to make assessment judgements about successful achievement of the learning outcomes for VCAL units
- select and provide advice regarding exemplar models of VCAL tasks for publication on the VCAA website.
