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Modern Languages: update on new qualifications

These new qualifications align with Curriculum for Excellence, offering more flexibility, choice, and teacher support. They emphasize progression and assessment, ensuring alignment with learning outcomes. The development process is strategic and iterative, with transparency and engagement at its core.

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Modern Languages: update on new qualifications

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  1. Modern Languages:update on new qualifications

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Key Features • Units are points of assessment and skills-based • Broad contexts of society, learning, employability and culture.

  6. 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

  7. Unit Assessment Support Packages

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. Development Process Next phase: Assessment

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. Quality Assurance and Engagement

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