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Validation Process
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Validation Process

Throughout 2005 the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority undertook a number of projects to validate the Victorian Essential Learning Standards. The validation process confirmed the structure as originally proposed but recommended refinements and clarification within this agreed structure.

Feedback was obtained from an online questionnaire, an independent evaluation of the standards and a comparability study of the standards and learning focus statements in five learning domains using five other national and international curricula.

The VCAA also worked with 40 schools and trialed assessment tasks in specific domains at particular levels. These schools trialed the tasks with students across more than one year level, assessed the work against agreed criteria and participated in a structured moderation exercise with other schools also trialing the same tasks.


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