[Year 12 SofDev] Grades of the exam?

[Claudia Graham]

Hi Rina,

Indicative grades are provided for all students undertaking a Unit 3&4 study.

This is the information VCAA provides and are the details I send my staff about indicative results.

Below is information from the VCAA Handbook, Scored assessment: External assessment.

4.1 Indicative grades and the anomalous grades check

Indicative grades for all VCE external assessments, must be submitted prior to the relevant examination period. The primary purpose of these indicative grades is in the quality assurance procedures for marking the external assessments. They assist in identifying possible anomalous marking of individual student responses. Indicative grades will also be used in the calculation of the DES (Derived Examination Score).

The indicative grade is the school’s prediction of a student’s actual level of achievement on the examination. Indicative grades are a letter grade from A+ to E/UG (ungraded) or NA (not assessed); note that plus (+) can be used, but minus (–) is not available for input.

Class teachers of the same study at the school should confer on the comparability of the indicative grades given to the individual students in their classes.

The rank order and level of spread of the indicative grades for the school cohort in the study are of prime importance. The indicative grades for the school cohort are moderated by the VCAA to ensure that they are statistically reliable. If they are not statistically reliable, they will not be used.

Strategies for arriving at an indicative grade
The VCAA has no preferred position on how a school arrives at a set of indicative grades except to advise that there should be coherence in the process.

Some strategies used by schools are:
• setting practice examinations, which must be held at a time that allows entry of the indicative grade on VASS by the due date
• ranking the students by performance in School-based Assessment and then applying an appropriate grade
• basing the grade on prior knowledge of the relative ability of the student in the study.

The VCAA recommends that schools use the indicative grades feedback report on VASS to assist with determining indicative grades. This report shows whether the school’s indicative grades for the previous year were generally aligned with the final grades.

Indicative grades should be based on information teachers already hold on students’ performance. Teachers should not require students to undertake additional work to determine their indicative grades. The indicative grade is a teacher judgment.

We also use Grade Distribution Reports to assist.
https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/administration/research-and-statistics/performance-senior-secondary/Pages/2018-grade-dist.aspx


Regards
Claudia

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Claudia Graham
Senior Studies Leader
Overnewton Anglican Community College
@ClaudiaG_Aus
9334 0049 (direct)



From: sofdev <sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au> on behalf of "Ding, Rena R" <Ding.Rena.R at edumail.vic.gov.au>
Reply-To: Year List <sofdev at edulists.com.au>
Date: Wednesday, 9 October 2019 at 2:57 pm
To: Year List <sofdev at edulists.com.au>
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Grades of the exam?

Hi, All,

Any one knows how to grade A+, A, B+, B, C… according to the external exam results? My school asks to put such grades from results of students’ trial exams which are identical to the final external exam.

Kind Regards,

Rena Ding

Footscray City College
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