Quality-assure assessment the right way: pre- and post-assessment moderation, sampling, checking decisions against evidence, writing moderation reports and handling disagreement — in about 30 minutes in WhatsApp.
By the end, you can
plan a moderation sample, check an assessor's decision against the evidence and write a moderation finding that improves assessment.
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Moderator Essentials
Why moderation exists
An assessor makes a decision. A moderator checks that the decision can be trusted.
Moderation is quality assurance of assessment. It asks:
• Were the assessment tools right for the outcomes?
• Did the assessor apply them properly?
• Is each decision supported by the evidence?
• Would the decisions be the same across assessors, groups and sites?
Without moderation, two learners with the same skills could get different results just because they had different assessors.
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