Course Information

  • By the end of the course you should be able to... 
    • use the syllabus standards to design an assessment task and rubric
    • use the syllabus standards to make consistent judgements about student learning

NESA Standard descriptors

5.1.2 Develop, select and use informal and formal, diagnostic, formative and summative assessment strategies to assess student learning

5.3.2 Understand and participate in assessment moderation activities to support consistent and comparable judgements of student learning

6.3.2 Contribute to collegial discussions and apply constructive feedback from colleagues to improve professional knowledge and practice

Course Curriculum

  • 1

    Investigating in Stage 6 Science

    • NSWTF JPL Podcast The New 11-12 Science syllabuses

    • Depth study survey

    • What's new!
  • 2

    Questioning and predicting - Syllabus

    • What constitutes an hypothesis?

    • Variables table

    • Hypothesis and prediction

    • Pendulum simulation

    • Hypothesis
  • 3

    Conducting investigations

    • Conducting investigations - syllabus

    • Reliability in first hand investigations

    • Reliability in Secondary investigations
  • 4

    Processing and analysing data and information

    • Processing and analysing data and information - syllabus

    • Data analysis and Stage 5 Mathematics
  • 5

    Problem solving

    • Problem solving.pdf
  • 6

    Communication

    • Communicating

    • Field, tenor and mode
  • 7

    Depth Studies

    • Limiting achievement

    • An assessment framework

    • Depth studies (Session 2).pdf

    • Assessment task and rubric

    • Moderating Exercise: Earth and Environmental Science (Research report)

    • Moderating Exercise: Biology (Research Report)

    • Moderating: Exercise Chemistry (Research Report & Poster)

    • Moderating Exercise: Physics (Research report and Poster)

    • Poster competition

    • Peer review
  • 8

    My task

    • Assessment validity

    • My Task
  • 9

    Reflection

    • Reflection
  • 10

    Resources

    • Resources
  • 11

    Further courses

    • NSWTF CPL science professional learning

About the instructor

Curriculum and assessment advisor

Jim Sturgiss

Jim is an educational researcher and independent educational consultant. A recipient of the NSW PTC Distinguished Service Award for leadership in delivering targeted professional learning to teachers, he works with schools to align assessment, reporting and learning practice. He has been a DoE Senior Assessment Advisor where he developed many statewide assessments, (ESSA, SNAP, ELLA, BST) and as Coordinator: Analytics where he developed reports to schools for statewide assessments and NAPLAN.

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