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25 September 2014 Senior secondary Number: 062/14
Retaining student work
Purpose
To remind schools to retain folios of student work used in determining exit levels of achievement.
Reasons for retaining student work
Evidence contained in student exit folios must be available to support school judgments in determining exit level of achievement decisions and for quality assurance purposes.
Folios of evidence may be required for:
• the November confirmation period to substantiate school exit level of achievement decisions
• applications for verification or review of results requested by students in Authority and Authority-registered subjects
• random sampling for quality assurance procedures for Authority subjects (requests for random sampling folios will be made before the end of the year)
• internal and external reviews for quality assurance procedures of QCAA short courses (for external reviews, schools will present a sample folio for each short course offered).
What you need to do
Please bring this information to the attention of staff and put procedures in place to:
• retain all student work used in determining exit levels of achievement in Authority subjects, Authority-registered subjects and QCAA short courses until the end of Term 1, 2015
• retain one sample student folio for each QCAA short course offered until the next external review.
Finding out more
Please email the Quality Assurance Unit at [email protected] or phone 3864 0375.
Jacqueline Wilton
Director, Curriculum Services Division
