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of Education – ATAR Results Process Internal Audit Report  \nContents  \nPage  \nExecutive summary 3  \nDetailed findings 8  \nOther matters 15  \nAppendices 20  \nThis report has been prepared as outlined in the Scope in Appendix 1. The services provided in connection with this engagement comprise an advisory engagement, which is not subject to assurance or other standards issued by the Australian Auditing and Assurance Standards Board and, consequently no opinions or conclusions intended to convey assurance have been expressed.  \nThis report is solely for the purpose set out in the Scope Section and for the Department of Education and the Office of Tasmanian Assessment, Standards and Certification’s information, and is not to be used for any other purpose or distributed to any other party without KPMG’s prior written consent.  \nThis report has been prepared at the request of the Department of Education and the Office of Tasmanian Assessment, Standards and Certification in accordance with the terms ofKPMG’s engagement letter/contract dated 11 January 2019. Other than our responsibility to the Department of Education and the Office of Tasmanian Assessment, Standards and Certification, neither KPMG nor any member or employee ofKPMG undertakes responsibility arising in anyway from reliance placed by a third party on this report. Any reliance placed is that party’s sole responsibility.  \n© 2019 KPMG, an Australian partnership and a member firm of the KPMG network of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity. All rights reserved. The KPMG name, logo and \"cutting through complexity\" are registered trademarks or trademarks of KPMG International. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.  \nDocument Classification: KPMG Confidential  \n2  \n1. Executive Summary  \nDepartment of Education – ATAR Results Process Internal Audit Report  \n1. Executive Summary  \nCONTEXT  \nOn 18 December 2018 a correction and re-issuing of the Australian Tertiary Admission Ranking (ATAR) was required to be performed for all ATAR eligible Tasmanian students. This was as a result of a procedural error which had occurred in the derivation of tertiary entrance scores for some students who had undertaken the University of Tasmania High Achiever Program (HAP) and University Connections Program (UCP) units in 2018.  \nAs a result of this issue, the Department of Education (the Department) has requested an internal audit be performed over the processes to calculate and report Tasmanian Certificate of Education (TCE) and ATAR scores for students with a particular focus on those studying HAP-UCP units. Consideration has been given to any validation checks over this process which may be in place.  \nSCOPE AND APPROACH  \nThe scope of this internal audit was to:  \n• Consider the current processes and controls in place regarding importing and validating data in relation to tertiary entrance scores and ATAR results, focusing on scaling HAP-UCP results.  \n• Consider the processes for transferring results from Education Performance and Review (EPR) to the Office of Tasmanian Assessment, Standards and Certification (TASC) and any validation checks which maybe in place.  \nThe specific objectives and scope of this internal audit, as detailed in Appendix 1 to this report, were developed in response to the request received from the Department.  \nIn performing this internal audit, the following approach was undertaken:  \n• Discussions were held with key staff from EPR and TASC to understand the issue which caused the incorrect values and to identify what validation checks are in place through the results calculation process.  \n• Compliance testing was performed over the validation checks currently in place.  \nIt is noted that this internal audit report is on an exceptions basis, with only s","cbCaiq7Ncr3bBMxL","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiq7Ncr3bBMxL","pdf",1661493,22,"English","# Executive summary\n## Context\n## Scope and approach\n## Background\n# Detailed findings\n## Data importing and validation\n## Results transfer and validation checks\n# Other matters\n# Appendices","[{\"question\":\"Why was the ATAR results process subject to internal audit in 2019?\",\"answer\":\"A correction and re-issuing of ATAR was required for eligible Tasmanian students due to a procedural error affecting tertiary entrance score derivation for some students in 2018 HAP and UCP units.\"},{\"question\":\"What areas were included in the internal audit scope?\",\"answer\":\"The audit considered current processes and controls for importing and validating data related to tertiary entrance scores and ATAR results, with a focus on scaling HAP-UCP results, and it reviewed processes transferring results from EPR to TASC including validation checks.\"},{\"question\":\"What method was used to evaluate existing validation controls?\",\"answer\":\"The audit included discussions with key staff from EPR and TASC to understand the issue and identify validation checks, followed by compliance testing over the validation controls currently in place.\"}]","ATAR Results Process Internal Audit Report - 2019 | PDF",55]