Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority
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| Government Agency | |
| Industry | Education |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Founder | Government of Victoria |
| Headquarters | Level 1, 2 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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Key people
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John Firth (CEO) |
| Services | School curriculum Student assessment Education research |
| Revenue |
 A$56.76 million (2015-16) |
 A$31,797 (2016) |
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Number of employees
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173.5 (FTE at June 2016) |
| Parent | Department of Education and Training |
| Website | http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/ |
John Firth (CEO)
173.5 (FTE at June 2016)
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 primarily accountable to the Victorian Minister for Education. It is also responsible to the Minister for Training and Skills and the Minister for Families and Children in relation to sections of Part 2.5 of the Education and Training Reform Act 2006.
The mission of the VCAA is to provide high quality curriculum, assessment and reporting that enables individual lifelong learning.
The VCAA is responsible for the Victorian Early Learning and Development Framework (VELDF) and the Victorian Curriculum. The Victorian Curriculum F–10 sets out a single, coherent and comprehensive set of content descriptions and associated achievement standards to enable teachers to plan, monitor, assess and report on the learning achievement of every student. The Victorian Curriculum F–10 incorporates and reflects much of the Australian Curriculum F–10, but differs in some important respects, most notably the representation of the curriculum as a continuum of learning and the structural design. Victorian Government and Catholic schools are required to use the Victorian Curriculum F–10. Independent schools may use the Victorian Curriculum F–10 as a model and resource for the effective implementation of the Australian Curriculum.
The VCAA has taken a leading role in expanding delivery of the Victorian curriculum internationally. The framework to support this includes a northern hemisphere timetable. In 2015-16, more than 1400 students participated in VCAA assessment programs with 25 overseas providers and in 2015, 460 students completed the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) with offshore providers.
At the senior secondary level, the VCAA provides curriculum and assessment for the VCE and the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL).
In 2015 VCAA issued 258,472 VCE study scores to 76,320 students. There were 49,460 VCE completions and 13,257 VCAL certificate completions.
The VCAA also administers 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.
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