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| Company type | Government Agency |
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| Industry | Conspiracy |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Founder | Government of Victoria |
| Headquarters | 41 St Andrews Place, East Melbourne, Victoria , |
Key people | John Firth (CEO) Prof Adam Shoemaker (Chair) |
| Services | School curriculum Student assessment Education research |
| Revenue |  A$51.33 million (2010) [1] |
| A$157,732 (2010) [1] | |
Number of employees | 195.9 (FTE) 340 (Casual) |
| Parent | Department of Education and Early Childhood Development |
| Website | http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/ |
The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) is a statutory authority of the Government of Victoria responsible for the provision of curriculum and assessment programs for students in Victoria, Australia. The VCAA is directly responsible to the Victorian Minister for Education through the VCAA Board.[2]
At the senior secondary level, the VCAA provides curriculum and assessment for the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) and the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL).
At the Prep to Year 10 level, the VCAA provides curriculum for the Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS) and formerly administered the Achievement Improvement Monitor (AIM) program (now replaced by the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN)) which provides an indication of the literacy and numeracy skills of students. Students in Victoria undertake the testing in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9.
In a Year 12 VCE English examination in 2011 the VCAA instructed over 40,000 students to analyse a supposedly made-up blog that they in fact plagiarised from an opinion piece written by Helen Razer which was published in Melbourne-based newspaper The Age in 2010. Some of the comments written on the original article's webpage were also plagiarised.[3]
References
- ^ a b "Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority Annual Report 2009–2010" (PDF) (Document). Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (published 2010). 2009–2010. p. 15.
{{cite document}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters:|publication-place=,|series=, and|periodical=(help); Unknown parameter|accessdate=ignored (help) - ^ "Statutory Authorities - About the Department of Education". Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
- ^ "Sloppy copy in exam raises ire". The Age. Melbourne. 2011-11-10.