Moderate

The Moderate section provides practitioners with the opportunity to practice their skills in moderation. By participating robust moderation activities practitioners will develop their professional judgement. By participating in inter-authority moderation activities will develop increased accuracy and consistency in standards of learning, teaching and assessment across Scotland.

Before engaging in this section we advise you refresh your understanding of the Moderation Cycle: “What is Moderation?”

Professional Learning Activities

To practise skills in moderating standards and levels of achievement you can access three professional learning activities via the boxes below:

Activity 1: View High Quality Exemplars - Download the exemplars that have been moderated as high quality learning, teaching and assessment. Reflect on them independently or collaboratively using the challenge questions to deepen understanding about the features of high quality learning, teaching and assessment

Activity 2: Moderate Examples - Download an example of learning, teaching and assessment and use the challenge questions to agree the standard through collaborative professional dialogue with colleagues.

Activity 3: Compare you feedback - Download the feedback exemplar that compliments the example you have moderated to compare moderation of standards

Refer to the guidance documents below to support your judgements

Benchmarks - to reflect on the appropriateness of the success criteria

Experiences and Outcomes - to reflect on the standards outlined within the Experiences and Outcomes

Challenge Questions - to support professional dialogue through critical reflection