[VELS] Prog. Points

[Litsa Tzelepis]

Thank-you very much Russell. That makes perfect sense.
Have a nice weekend, Litsa

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russell Edwards" <edwards.russell.t at edumail.vic.gov.au>
To: "Victorian Essential Learning Standards" <vels at edulists.com.au>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: [VELS] Prog. Points


>
> On 13/06/2008, at 8:42 PM, Litsa Tzelepis wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>> just a quick question, how flexible are progression points?
>>
>> My school is in the process of applying progression points to all 
>> Semester 2 assessments, for Level 6. Some staff have become very 
>> confused about the wording in some of the points. I know that the  points 
>> published on the VCAA website are "examples" so is it  possible to 
>> generate your own progression points, given that you  achieve the 
>> "standards"?
>
> Litsa, my understanding is that the progression points are perfectly 
> flexible in that they are recommendations only.
>
> The Standards are the actual benchmarks you are reporting against.  Any 
> .25, .5 or .75 on a level is based on your discretion as to how  far they 
> have progressed between one (.0) Standard and the next. The  progression 
> points are meant as a guide as to how to interpolate, and  often a very 
> ineffective guide at that. Often they do not progress in  any sequence and 
> there is no logical reason why aspects covered by,  say, the 5.75 
> progression point, could not be covered before aspects  of, say, 5.25.
>
> http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/assessment/progresspoints.html
>
> regards,
>
> Russell Edwards
> Whittlesea Secondary College
>
>
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