ACTIVITY - VERIFICATION PROCESSES

Select 3 situations -Discuss ways to manage the verification process

How could the verification process be managed?
  1. We have two teachers of my subject in the school. I teach the Level 1 and 3 and my colleague teaches Level 2.

  1. I have just arrived from England. I have been appointed as the HOD of my subject in a department of three.

  1. I am a first year teacher. There are three other teachers of my subject within my department all teaching Level 1 with me this year.

  1. We have a large department of 10 teachers of a Level 1 “subject”. We assess against standards at different times during the year.

  1. Our school has 15 students in the senior school. I am the only teacher of my subject.

  1. I have been a national moderator in the past and I verify a lot of work from other teachers in our region who I meet through our subject association.

  1. I teach in two departments and they both use the Monday night department meeting times to complete internal moderation.

  1. Some students we assess are at different schools.

  1. Other:

ACTIVITY

Verification -how does it happen in your school?

Is this current practice in your school? / Is this an NZQA requirement?
For each assessment 8 samples of student work must be verified
All student work at grade boundaries or where the teacher is unsure must be verified.
HOFs/HODs monitor internal moderation in their faculty/department.
Senior management/PN monitors internal moderation in departments/faculties.
Large departments have a marking meeting, teachers mark their own class and then:
  • all grade boundaries are checked by the Teacher in Charge
OR
  • eight samples (often random) from each teacher are verified by the Teacher in Charge.

When a poor external moderation agreement rate occurs senior management/PN expects additional work to be verified by HOD or subject expert.
When a department assesses a new standard for the first time, the HOD carries out additional verification to monitor consistency of judgements against the standard.
New teachers to the subject/level and PRTs have additional samples verified by the HOD or subject expert to ensure consistency with the standard.
When a teacher is unsure of work at grade boundaries, all of these are given to the HOD/TIC to verify.
The Internal Moderation Cover Sheet must be submitted to senior management before grades are entered onto the SMS.
Evidence of internal moderation must be recorded on NZQAs Internal Moderation Cover Sheet.