Applying for external assessment writing roles

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24 October 2022 Senior secondary Number: 054/22

Applying for external assessment writing roles

Purpose

To invite eligible teachers to apply for roles developing external assessments for General subjects and common internal assessments for Essential English and Essential Mathematics.

Information

Applications are now open for eligible teachers to become members of the writing panels and scrutiny panels to develop assessments that senior students will sit in 2024. The development period is scheduled from late January to mid-June 2023.

The closing date for applications is Friday 18 November 2022.

The roles

When applying for these roles, teachers should indicate whether they would prefer to be on a writing panel or scrutiny panel.

Writing panel

Writing panel members:

• use their subject matter expertise to support the development of external assessments

• create responses to external assessments

• make recommendations for approval of the assessments for use with students.

Scrutiny panel

Scrutiny panel members:

• review external assessments and marking guides

• develop responses to external assessments

• advise the QCAA about the validity of external assessments.

Eligibility

Applicants must:

• be registered with the Queensland College of Teachers (QCT)

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• be teaching in a Queensland secondary school context and have experience in the senior phase of schooling

• not intend to teach Units 3 and 4 in the year the assessment will be used with Year 12 students

• not be related to any person sitting the external assessment in the year the assessment will be used with Year 12 students

• have successfully completed the relevant online assessment literacy and role-specific courses in the Assessment literacy program

- Course 1 — Attributes of quality assessment

- Course 2 — Developing valid and accessible assessment - Course 6 — External assessment writing

• have their principal’s support for the application and agreement to release them for any activities held during school hours.

Remuneration

Assessors are paid an hourly rate of $59.83 for work completed on weekends and/or outside of school hours. For work completed during school hours, Assessors will continue to receive their standard salary from the school.

How to apply

Comprehensive information about this opportunity is available on the QCAA website:

https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/senior/assessment/qcaa-assessors/external-assessment-writing.

This includes:

• a position description

• the schedule of work dates for each subject

• how to apply.

Finding out more

Please email [email protected] or phone 1300 239 227.

Kathryn Tully

Acting Executive Director, Curriculum Services Division

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