Professional Practice - Standard 5
Standard 5. Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning
5.1 Assess student learning
Graduate: Demonstrate understanding of assessment strategies, including informal and formal, diagnostic, formative and summative approaches to assess student learning.
Proficient: Develop, select and use informal and formal, diagnostic, formative and summative assessment strategies to assess student learning.
Highly Accomplished: 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.
Lead: 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
Graduate: Demonstrate an understanding of the purpose of providing timely and appropriate feedback to students about their learning.
Proficient: Provide timely, effective and appropriate feedback to students about their achievement relative to their learning goals.
Highly Accomplished: 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.
Lead: 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
Graduate: Demonstrate understanding of assessment moderation and its application to support consistent and comparable judgements of student learning.
Proficient: Understand and participate in assessment moderation activities to support consistent and comparable judgements of student learning.
Highly Accomplished: Organise assessment moderation activities that support consistent and comparable judgements of student learning.
Lead: 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
Graduate: Demonstrate the capacity to interpret student assessment data to evaluate student learning and modify teaching practice.
Proficient: Use student assessment data to analyse and evaluate student understanding of subject/content, identifying interventions and modifying teaching practice.
Highly Accomplished: Work with colleagues to use data from internal and external student assessments for evaluating learning and teaching, identifying interventions and modifying teaching practice.
Lead: Co-ordinate student performance and program evaluation using internal and external student assessment data to improve teaching practice.
5.5 Report on student achievement
Graduate: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of strategies for differentiating teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities.
Proficient: Develop teaching activities that incorporate differentiated strategies to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities.
Highly Accomplished: Work with colleagues to construct accurate, informative and timely reports to students and parents/carers about student learning and achievement.
Lead: Evaluate and revise reporting and accountability mechanisms in the school to meet the needs of students, parents/carers and colleagues.
5.1 Assess student learning
Graduate: Demonstrate understanding of assessment strategies, including informal and formal, diagnostic, formative and summative approaches to assess student learning.
Proficient: Develop, select and use informal and formal, diagnostic, formative and summative assessment strategies to assess student learning.
Highly Accomplished: 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.
Lead: 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
Graduate: Demonstrate an understanding of the purpose of providing timely and appropriate feedback to students about their learning.
Proficient: Provide timely, effective and appropriate feedback to students about their achievement relative to their learning goals.
Highly Accomplished: 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.
Lead: 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
Graduate: Demonstrate understanding of assessment moderation and its application to support consistent and comparable judgements of student learning.
Proficient: Understand and participate in assessment moderation activities to support consistent and comparable judgements of student learning.
Highly Accomplished: Organise assessment moderation activities that support consistent and comparable judgements of student learning.
Lead: 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
Graduate: Demonstrate the capacity to interpret student assessment data to evaluate student learning and modify teaching practice.
Proficient: Use student assessment data to analyse and evaluate student understanding of subject/content, identifying interventions and modifying teaching practice.
Highly Accomplished: Work with colleagues to use data from internal and external student assessments for evaluating learning and teaching, identifying interventions and modifying teaching practice.
Lead: Co-ordinate student performance and program evaluation using internal and external student assessment data to improve teaching practice.
5.5 Report on student achievement
Graduate: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of strategies for differentiating teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities.
Proficient: Develop teaching activities that incorporate differentiated strategies to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities.
Highly Accomplished: Work with colleagues to construct accurate, informative and timely reports to students and parents/carers about student learning and achievement.
Lead: Evaluate and revise reporting and accountability mechanisms in the school to meet the needs of students, parents/carers and colleagues.