QCAA assessor (external assessment marking)

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Position title: QCAA assessor (external assessment marking) Applicants: Queensland teachers

Closing date: October 2020

Offer rounds: Round 1: Term 2, 2020 Round 2: Term 3, 2020 Further enquiries: [email protected]

For General and General (Extension) syllabuses, the QCAA will employ and train casual employees to mark student responses to external assessment (EA) using an online marking platform (OLMP).

Applications are invited from teachers across Queensland for two QCAA assessor (external assessment marking) roles: markers and lead markers.

Where the required number of marker and lead marker roles are filled for a subject, suitable applicants will be appointed to reserve marker roles.

Training and marking

The external assessment timetable is available via the QCAA Portal Noticeboard app.

After the external assessment for a subject is sat, markers and lead markers will be required to complete up to 2 days of subject-specific training. Lead markers will also be required to complete up to 2 days of script selection prior to marking commencing.

Following training, markers will use the online marking platform to mark student scripts at home.

At-home marking will require markers to be contactable by phone or online in the marking

platform from 4pm to 9pm. For weekends, markers will nominate their availability on Saturdays or Sundays closer to the marking operation. Markers may choose to mark additional hours to those they have nominated.

Appointees are paid for training, script selection and marking that takes place outside of their normal school work day (e.g. events that occur over weekends or on days they are not rostered to work; at-home marking). For training, script selection and marking that occurs during a normal school work day for a marker or lead marker, their school will be paid TRS. Remuneration rates are explained at the end of this document.

Mandatory eligibility requirements

To apply for a QCAA assessor (external assessment marking) role, you must meet the following requirements:

• successfully complete Accreditation Courses 1, 3 and 7 including assessment

• have current teaching registration with the Queensland College of Teachers.

Applying for external assessment marking roles

Prior to applying, you must obtain agreement from your principal that:

• your application will be supported

Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority

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• you will be released for training during school hours if required.

In the first instance, applicants will be considered for marker roles. If you wish to be considered for a lead marker role, you can indicate this in your application. Lead markers must also be released for script selection, to be undertaken between the external assessment and training days.

Minimum ICT requirements

All applicants must meet the QCAA’s minimum ICT requirements on their home PCs or personal laptops.

Minimum requirements

Platform PC ^Mac

Processor Intel Core i3, i5 or i7

RAM 4GB minimum

Operating system Windows 7 and above OS 10.6 and above Screen resolution • 1024 x 768 pixels or higher

• Screen size — monitor: 17 inches

• Screen size — laptop: 15 inches Internet browsers • Internet Explorer — version 11

• Mozilla Firefox — version 41

• Google Chrome — version 45

• Safari – version 9

• Mozilla Firefox — version 41

• Google Chrome — version 45 Broadband connection ADSL 2/NBN

Roles and responsibilities

Markers

To ensure reliability in the marking of student responses, markers will:

• complete mandatory marker training, including an induction session. Training is subject- specific

• be objective when matching evidence in student responses to criteria in external assessment marking guides (EAMGs)

• accept that they will be subject to quality-control procedures as necessary, to ensure fairness to students and maintain public accountability

• continue to mark each day until marking is completed or until the last day of the marking operation, whichever comes first

• maintain confidentiality on all aspects of training and marking, and privacy regarding information accessed through the process.

Lead markers

To ensure reliability in the marking of student responses, lead markers will:

• select scripts, prepare training materials, conduct training and supervise assigned markers

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• be objective in matching evidence in student responses to criteria in the EAMG

• ensure quality-control procedures are applied as necessary, to ensure fairness to students and to maintain public accountability

• accept that they will be subject to quality-control procedures as necessary, to ensure fairness to students and maintain public accountability

• continue to monitor their allocated marking group until marking is completed or until the last day of the marking operation, whichever comes first

• maintain confidentiality on all aspects of training and marking, and privacy regarding information accessed through the process.

Selection process

All roles will be filled with suitable applicants:

• Applicants who do not satisfy all mandatory eligibility requirements for a role will be considered unsuitable. All other applicants will be considered potentially suitable.

• Information provided by potentially suitable applicants through their application will be reviewed by QCAA. The review process will consider teaching experience and experience in related roles with the QCAA, and/or equivalent interstate or overseas agencies.

• Prior to any teacher appointment being finalised, the principal (or their delegate) must approve the appointment, including the suitability of the applicant’s skills and experience to perform the role to a high level and support the appointee’s release during their normal school working hours, if required.

• QCAA will prepare and support appointees to successfully perform their role by delivering role- specific training.

QCAA assessor employment conditions

• QCAA assessors (external assessment marking) will be appointed annually.

• The work of appointees will be monitored and reviewed with feedback and support given and other appropriate actions as necessary.

• A casual appointment may be ceased if an identified trend in the quality, consistency or accuracy of an appointee’s work is unable to be resolved quickly.

Remuneration

Remuneration is based on the rates approved by the Governor in Council on 1 September 2016.

If an appointee is required to undertake training and/or other marking events (e.g. script selection as a lead marker) during their normal working hours at a school, QCAA will pay the school TRS.

The Teacher Relief Scheme (TRS) rate charged by QCAA is calculated based on the daily rate for a Band 3, Step 1 casual teacher under the Department of Education, Training and

Employment State School Teachers’ Certified Agreement 2012. The rate also factors in on-costs (loading, super, workers comp and long-service leave levy).

If an appointee attends training and/or other marking events on a weekend, they do not work at their school on that weekday, or the event occurs outside of normal working hours (e.g. at-home marking) they will be paid an hourly rate based on their appointed role for training and the subject piece-rate when marking.

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Payments will be made into the appointee’s nominated bank account at the end of the QCAA fortnightly pay period, following completion of the marking operation.

Role Task TRS/Hourly Rate Piece-

rate per subject*

Marker Training TRS rate or $46.17

Marking TBA

Lead marker Training/Script Selection TRS rate or $52.15

Marking TBA

*Note: Piece-rates will be based on the hourly rate and the expected time it takes a marker to mark a subject-specific student response. Subject piece-rates will be determined in the first week of marking for each subject.