[3] Jeffery was responsible for the implementation of the Curriculum Framework and in 2005 began to introduce the new courses of study into Year 11 of senior high schools in Western Australia under the direction of the then Education Minister Ljiljanna Ravlich.
The report was duly completed later the same year and found that strongly argued case for marks arising from analytic assessments to be used for tertiary selection and against the levelling system that was currently being used.
[9] Dave Wood was appointed to the role of Chief Executive of the Curriculum Council in 2006, in the midst of a furore of the botched introduction of Outcomes Based Education in schools in Western Australia.
[10] The Chief Executive of the Curriculum Council, Dave Wood, was dumped in 2010 by the then education minister, Liz Constable, following a string of errors being identified in the WACE examinations from 2010.
Errors had been identified in the History, Physics, Maths, English and Business Management and Enterprise exams, evidence of failures in the Council's proof-reading processes.
[11] Both the Council charmain, Professor Bill Louden, and the Chief Executive, Dave Wood, were reprimanded by the then Minister of Education, Liz Constable after she had expressly asked them to recheck all papers after initial errors were discovered.