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Teachers use moderation to grade an assessment collaboratively, by bringing their own experiences and and opinions together, to provide a fair and valid assessment.

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allows for educators to create a fair environment for students work to be academically graded

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Moderation enables teachers to collaborate and discuss where student are and need to be based on content taught and marking criteria.

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Minimalizes bias from teachers. equal, fair and consistent feedback

provides insight into how students are progressing within their own learning

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- Really visible in college, teachers were very transparent and communicated the process with students.
- Never spoken about it during placements and PCK, nor whilst working in a school

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Allows teachers insight into other teachers practice/pedagogies

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Allows teachers insight into other teachers practice/pedagogies

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Maintaining fair assessment and judgment of student samples. It may inform your practice of what is effective.

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Collaborative approach to ensuring equitable fair marking.

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1. There are two types of moderation, teacher and student.

1. Teacher moderation refers to when teachers of various experience levels and across various year levels come together to compare their students work with examples from curriculum.

2. Student moderation is the process of a student self-identifying their success in an activity by comparing it to explicit rubrics, other work samples, or success criteria.

2. The underlying purpose of moderation is to make better decisions. Better means more consistent, valid and evidence based.

3. Feedback is useless unless it is acted upon by the student.

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Imagine if NAPLAN was replaced with some sort of national moderation system. Moderation would be done within the school, districts, state/territories and then nationally, giving a much clearer insight into the learning of our students that is not reliant on a national test.

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Moderation can be used for differentiation and to ensure fair and consistent marking.

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Moderation can be used for differentiation and to ensure fair and consistent marking.

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Moderation can be used Before, During and After an assessment.

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This allows for a teacher to get other opinions about their marking of an assessment, to make sure a teacher bias. If had, is not affecting the way the teacher is viewing and grading their works

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eliminates unconscious bias which allows consistent and fair marking

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Moderation is making sure that marking and assessment is fair and stays consistent. It monitors students learning and progress in a way that cancels out teacher bias.

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Moderation is intended to be a process where all educator working in the same cohort benchmark their processes of assessing students against each other to ensure fairness and reduce the effect of cognitive biases of different educators.

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Helps ensure fair and equal marking. but also allows teachers to work together during school time when students are not there

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Better understanding of the purpose of moderation, particularly unknown teacher bias. Would be useful for reflection of your own marking practices and consistency

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Moderation is about making marking fair and consistence across the board

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- Making sure that every student's results are fairly marked
- Helping teachers stay on the same page when marking student's work (minimising bias)

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Is needed to ensure consistency across the whole territory.
It can cancel out bias that teachers may have and can support better decision making.

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Helps ensure that teachers unconscious biases don't interfere with consistent and fair marking

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Moderation ensures that marks are fair, reliable and consistent. Ensures bias is limited.

Still a little unsure of how this process looks?

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moderation allows for fair marking that is consistent and non biased

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- Assessment demonstrates how students' learning is progressing
- Moderation aims to keep assessment practices consistent across all classrooms

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This is where you have made a mark and then another person assess it to make sure that mark fits the learning

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Moderation helps minimize the effect of teacher bias during assessment

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-Moderation enable discussion about what students need to learn to meet standards. 

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-Moderation enable discussion about what students need to learn to meet standards. 

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Moderation ensures that marks are fair across the board for all students and assessment ensures that the classroom teacher is gaining an understanding of their students' knowledge and understanding of a particular topic or unit of work

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Moderation makes sure that marking is consistent and that assessments of student learning are made without bias.

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Aims to filter out bias and adjust expectations in a peer learning environment for teachers.

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used to monitor progress and adjust learning

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Moderation is an assessment practice, both teachers/students sharing and developing their understanding of what learning looks like.

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Moderation ensures that marking is consistent and equitable for students.

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Moderation ensures that the marking is fair and equitable for all students especially when there is multiple markers.

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- Assessment is used to see what students know, where they need to go to next and how they will get there.
- Moderation ensures that marking and assessment is fair and equitable for all students.

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- It occurs a lot more in schools both primary and secondary than I first thought.
- It cancels out any bias that teachers may have.

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Making sure marks are fair and correct

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- It is sometimes challenging to complete
- Is a must to ensure consistency across the task

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FOCUS QUESTION - What two new things did you learn about assessment and moderation?

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FOCUS QUESTION - What two new things did you learn about assessment and moderation?