Use the NESA syllabuses, assessment requirements and advice to construct teaching and learning programs that promote deep knowledge and understanding.
Formal assessment tasks reflect the components and weightings specified in the course assessment and reporting materials.
Formal assessment tasks are designed to focus on assessing outcomes relevant to the task.
Measures of objectives and outcomes that address values and attitudes are not to be included in school-based assessment of student achievement.
Measures that reflect student conduct should not be included.
Students are provided with the opportunity to demonstrate their achievement of outcomes in a range of different task types.
Students are provided with advance notice of the due date, and marking guidelines (where possible), for each assessment task.
Marking guidelines for each assessment task relate to the standards, including a relationship to syllabus outcomes, relevant performance descriptions and reflect the intention of the task.
Marks reflect the relative differences in student performances.
Formal assessment marks are recorded by the teacher responsible for marking the task.
Marks are transferred to a file or record containing the marks awarded for all tasks for all students in the course.
Marks are maintained in a secure and safe location.
Feedback
Students receive timely and meaningful feedback about what they are able to do, and what they need to do in order to improve their level of performance.
Teachers maintain accurate records of evidence of student achievement.
Reporting
Report student achievement to parents, in line with school and sector requirements.
Appropriate discrimination has been applied between students in terms of their overall achievement.
The Common Grade Scale for Preliminary Courses has been used to determine Preliminary course grades submitted to NESA.
Final HSC marks submitted to NESA for each course are on a scale sufficiently wide to reflect adequately the relative differences in student performances.
