"Every piece of student work needs to be verified."
"Not all standards need to be internally moderated."
"The Internal Moderation Cover Sheet must be used to document internal moderation."
Facts
Schools must undertake internal moderation each year to ensure that assessment materials meet the standard and that teacher judgements are consistent across tasks, classes, and years.
A sample of student work from each standard assessed must be internally moderated every year. This should be strategically selected.
Schools must report only those internal assessment results which have been subject to an internal moderation process.
Schools must have a documented internal moderation process to ensure reported results are consistent with the national standard.
Evidence of grade verification can include:
annotated student work
records of discussions between teachers
the Internal Moderation Cover Sheet.
Schools can document their internal process in any way, including adopting or adapting the Internal Moderation Cover Sheet.
Benchmark samples should be identified during the marking process and kept for future reference and decision making.
Stored samples should be regularly updated.
The subject leader is responsible for making sure that internal moderation occurs. Senior management is responsible for ensuring that all assessed standards are subject to internal moderation before results are reported.