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Modern Languages: update on new qualifications. New National Qualifications. Support learning – assessment follows the curriculum Support aims, purposes and principles of Curriculum for Excellence
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New National Qualifications • Support learning – assessment follows the curriculum • Support aims, purposes and principles of Curriculum for Excellence • Provide progression from Experiences and Outcomes and maximizes curriculum continuity between levels • Build on existing strengths of reputation, standards, reliability and validity of Scottish qualifications • Provide more flexibility and choice • Support teacher professionalism • Enable the sharing of standards
How we have developed qualifications • Qualifications developed in a more strategic way – starts with learning, process is iterative • Each stage informs the next – on-going process of exploring issues/developing thinking, seeking advice/guidance and then testing proposals • Open and transparent – draft documents published at each stage (both for information and feedback) • Wide range of engagement – from formal groups to Liaison Team visits to target activities • Ongoing engagement – feedback from web • Robust quality assurance – involving partners at each stage
Timelines • Draft AH Unit Specifications – September 2012 • Further Information on Course Assessment – October 2012 • Subject-specific events – Autumn/Winter 2012/13 • Assessment support and exemplification – October onwards
Key Features • Units are points of assessment and skills-based • Broad contexts of society, learning, employability and culture.
Modern Languages - Key Features • provides progression from Modern Languages Experiences and Outcomes and same Course structure and Unit titles National 3 - Higher • will allow learners to draw on, combine and apply the language skills learned throughout the Course in the Added Value Unit Modern Language Assignment • provides flexibility to apply language skills in contexts relevant to learners, such as social media, job-related topics or through thematic approaches • provides opportunities to use a range of contexts • provides opportunities to combine skills
Added value at National 4: Assignment • Assessing the skills of reading, listening & talking • guidance on setting and controlling the assessment • Guidance on making assessment judgements • Personalisation and choice • Support notes and assessment exemplification: guidance on overtaking other Unit outcomes
Added Value at National 5: Course Assessment • Assessing the skills of reading, writing, listening & talking Question Papers: • Reading – 3 texts (of same length) • Listening – 1 monologue, 1 conversation • Writing – job e-mail Performance: • Talking – presentation and conversation
Added value at Higher: Course Assessment • Assessing the skills of reading, translating, writing, listening & talking Question Papers: • Reading – 1 text, including translation • Directed Writing – choice of four scenarios (one from each context) • Listening – 1 monologue, 1 follow-up conversation • Personal Response – stimulus based on Listening Performance: • Talking – presentation and conversation
Modern Languages for Life and Work Award • Available at SCQF levels 3 and 4 • Practical and relevant contexts • Personal development – employability skills • 3 Units, 2 of which existing SQA Units • Opportunity to use 2 languages in one qualification • Available to Centres August 2012 • Available to all pupils of all ages • Award Support Notes available on secure site
Course and Unit Support Notes Access 3- Higher • These provide guidance on delivering Units and Course. • Approaches to learning and teaching and assessment • Gathering naturally-occurring evidence • Combining Outcomes within and across Units • Useful appendices
Advanced Higher • Course structure and Units same as current • Contexts of society, learning, employability and culture • Open up types of text for internal unit assessment for ERV to include media texts • Emphasis on topical issues • Draft Unit Specifications published end of September 2012
Development Process Next phase: Assessment
Assessment Support • Assessment Briefs – all levels N3-N5 • Unit assessments – combined across Units and unit only • Added Value Unit & making Assessment Judgements information • Specimen Question Papers & Marking Instructions • Specimen Coursework & Marking Instructions • April 2013
Who Enhanced Subject Working Group: • Qualification Development Manager • Qualification Development Consultant • Qualification Manager/Qualification Officer • Principal Assessor • Item Writers • Principal Verifier • Subject expertise from CARG/QDT/SWG