Syllabus Delivery Audit
The Syllabus Delivery Audit (SDA) is a senior school moderation activity whereby schools are required to submit a course outline and assessment outline when offering either a new course or a recently reviewed course in Years 11 and 12.
The SDA operates with other moderation activities to provide a broader picture of assessment practices in a course and at a school for a particular course.
The purpose of the SDA is to ensure that schools are implementing the correct syllabus and to ensure comparability between schools and support fairness for all students no matter which school they attend.
In any given year, for a selection of ATAR, General and/or Foundation courses, schools may be required to submit a course outline and assessment outline for a given course to the Authority for review. These documents and the criteria on which the syllabus delivery audit is based are described below.
Each course outline will be reviewed using the following criteria.
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| includes all the content from the current syllabus |
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| provides an appropriate timing for the delivery of the syllabus content |
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| provides an appropriate sequence for the delivery of the syllabus content |
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Each assessment outline will be reviewed using the following criteria.
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| uses the assessment types specified in the current syllabus |
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| uses assessment type weightings that conform to the assessment table in the syllabus |
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| includes an appropriate number of tasks |
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| provides a representative sampling of the syllabus content |
includes a general description of the nature of the task and a brief description of the syllabus content for each task
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indicates appropriate timing of the assessment tasks
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is consistent with the course outline
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*Applies to Years 11 and 12 syllabuses introduced from 2022.
Schools are advised, through the 7 to 12 Circular, of courses that will be involved in the Syllabus Delivery Audit in that particular year in the correspondence titled, ‘Information to schools’.
Further information about the Syllabus Delivery Audit is provided in the Syllabus delivery audit School Coordinator Handbook and the Syllabus delivery audit Teacher and Head of Learning Area (HoLA) Handbook.