Practices to support School Certificate grading
Here you will find information to help teachers, Principals and the whole school to establish practices and policies that underpin reliable and valid School Certificate grading.
The information presented under Assessing: whole school covers designing and communicating a whole school assessment policy and keeping records.
The information presented under Assessing: each course covers developing assessment strategies, designing assessment activities and providing feedback to students.
The Course Performance Descriptors for each Stage 5 course are available through this link, and the FAQs link takes you to frequently asked questions (and answers) about assessment issues related to School Certificate grading.
Accountability
Schools - under the leadership and guidance of the Principal - are accountable to the Board of Studies for the grades assigned to students in each course. Each year the Office of the Board of Studies monitors the awarding of School Certificate grades. Principals may be asked to review the grades assigned in courses at their school.