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General Update

General Update. New Quality Assurance arrangements. Will cover new National 1 to National 5 from 2013/14 New arrangements will promote shared understanding of national standards through a collaborative and partnership approach

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General Update

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  1. General Update

  2. New Quality Assurance arrangements • Will cover new National 1 to National 5 from 2013/14 • New arrangements will promote shared understanding of national standards through a collaborative and partnership approach • New ‘Nominee’ role - provides a pool of nationally trained experts • Intense verification in the first 3 years, then an intelligence led approach will be adopted

  3. New Quality Assurance arrangements • Will cover new National 1 to National 5 from 2013/14 • New arrangements will promote shared understanding of national standards through a collaborative and partnership approach • New ‘Nominee’ role - provides a pool of nationally trained experts • Intense verification in the first 3 years, then an intelligence led approach will be adopted

  4. Prior-Verification • Can amend SQA Unit Assessment Support Packs, maintaining the standard. • If developing assessments, advised to use SQA Prior Verification Service. • First prior verification window opens 3rd June 2013, response in August. • Thereafter, 6 week turnaround on submissions • www.sqa.org.uk/cfepriorverification

  5. Recognising Positive Achievement • Opportunities for candidates who have achieved Units at National 5, but failed the Course Assessment, to achieve the Course at National 4 • “Fallback” based on hierarchical structures • No Compensatory Awards • Must have an entry and a ‘Pass’ result for the N4 Added Value Unit (English, Gaidhlig and Maths also require Literacy and Numeracy Units) • Pre and post certification models • A guide on these arrangements is now available www.sqa.org.uk/cfedelivery

  6. Qualifications Update: Modern Languages

  7. Developing qualifications - drivers • Progression – provide progression from Es & Os and maximise continuity between levels • More open and flexible requirements – fewer, broader outcomes, more focus on skills • Assessment which supports learning - open evidence requirements – choice of assessment approaches – opportunities for combined assessment • Refreshed and relevant contexts for learning, providing challenge and enjoyment • Personalisation and Choice – in content/contexts for Units - Added Value Unit at National 4 – coursework assessment at National 5 • Robust and credible – current high standards in qualifications will be maintained

  8. Relationship between CfE and SCQF Levels Continues to 12 ≈ SCQF Levels 4 4 CfE Levels 3 3 2 2 1 1 early years

  9. Key Points – Modern Languages • Units Outcomes are skills based and provide flexibility and choice • through four contexts: society, learning, employability and culture • Reading , Listening, Talking and Writing are developed through • the 4 contexts and can be combined where appropriate • Understanding Language Unit at all levels - • overall purpose of texts assessed • Overall purpose question in Reading and Listening in Course • Assessment ( Question Paper) at National 5 • N4 - Has added value assessment that provides • personalisation and choice in an Assignment

  10. Unit Structure

  11. New Quality Assurance arrangements • Will cover new National 1 to National 5 from 2013/14 • New arrangements will promote shared understanding of national standards through a collaborative and partnership approach • New ‘Nominee’ role - provides a pool of nationally trained experts • Intense verification in the first 3 years, then an intelligence led approach will be adopted • Verification in Nov/Dec, Feb and Apr/May - allows for early identification of issues and support/guidance to be given

  12. Assessment Support Schedule 2012/13

  13. Modern LanguagesUnit AssessmentNational 3 to National 5

  14. Unit assessment • Flexible and open Assessment Standards and Evidence Requirements in Units • Greater range of techniques and methodologies for assessment – encouraged through Unit assessment support packages • Assessments can be designed to provide evidence across more than one outcome or Unit – combined assessments • More opportunities to gather naturally occurring evidence – assessment as part of learning and teaching

  15. Unit Assessment Support packages – purpose Assessment support packages will be provided which you can use to: • Assess your candidates • Adapt for your own assessment programmes • Help you develop your own assessments

  16. Unit Assessment Support packages – key features • Valid from August 2013 • Designed to encourage professional judgement • Provide broad-based tasks – allow assessors to choose appropriate context and forms of evidence • Show range of approaches to generating assessment evidence • Give information on the type of evidence which could be gathered and how this is to be judged against Assessment Standards

  17. Unit assessment support packages - approaches Package 1 • Combined approach – groups Outcomes and Assessment Standards from different Units Package 2 • Unit by Unit approach – discrete assessment tasks for each Unit Package 3 • N3 Unit by Unit approach – discrete assessment tasks for each Unit • N4 and N5Combined approach – groups Outcomes and Assessment Standards from different Units

  18. Assessment Package 1

  19. Assessment Package 1 - Structure • Outcomes and Assessment Standards • Purpose • Overview of assessment • Assessment conditions • Evidence to be gathered • Judging Evidence Tables • Re-assessment arrangements • Appendix 1 (and for Listening also Appendix2)

  20. Assessment Package 1

  21. Assessment Package 1 • Purpose (English example of approach) • Overview of assessment (main purpose ?) • Assessment conditions (on different occasions) • Evidence to be gathered (refer back to OASs)

  22. Assessment Package 1 • Judging Evidence Tables

  23. Assessment Package 1 • Appendix 1 • Outcomes and Assessment Standards • Task for candidates • Appendix 2 (where applicable) for Listening transcript • Candidate successful? Refer back to JE tables This is how you’ll know if c has p/f.

  24. Assessment Package 1 • Workshop Task 1

  25. www.sqa.org.uk/events2012 Username events2012 password cfe2012

  26. General Update

  27. New Quality Assurance arrangements • Will cover new National 1 to National 5 from 2013/14 • New arrangements will promote shared understanding of national standards through a collaborative and partnership approach • New ‘Nominee’ role - provides a pool of nationally trained experts • Intense verification in the first 3 years, then an intelligence led approach will be adopted

  28. New Quality Assurance arrangements • Will cover new National 1 to National 5 from 2013/14 • New arrangements will promote shared understanding of national standards through a collaborative and partnership approach • New ‘Nominee’ role - provides a pool of nationally trained experts • Intense verification in the first 3 years, then an intelligence led approach will be adopted

  29. Prior-Verification • Can amend SQA Unit Assessment Support Packs, maintaining the standard. • If developing assessments, advised to use SQA Prior Verification Service. • First prior verification window opens 3rd June 2013, response in August. • Thereafter, 6 week turnaround on submissions • www.sqa.org.uk/cfepriorverification

  30. Recognising Positive Achievement • Opportunities for candidates who have achieved Units at National 5, but failed the Course Assessment, to achieve the Course at National 4 • “Fallback” based on hierarchical structures • No Compensatory Awards • Must have an entry and a ‘Pass’ result for the N4 Added Value Unit (English, Gaidhlig and Maths also require Literacy and Numeracy Units) • Pre and post certification models • A guide on these arrangements is now available www.sqa.org.uk/cfedelivery

  31. Modern LanguagesAdded Value Assessments:- National 5 Course Assessment- National 4 Added Value Unit

  32. Adding Value – National 4, National 5 • Each Course at National 4 and National 5 includes assessment of Added Value • For National 4, the added value is in an Added Value Unit - not graded • For National 5, the added value is in the Course Assessment - graded A - D (as at present)

  33. Added Value • Makes the Course more than the sum of its parts • Builds on current Course assessment and Group Award approaches • Defined as breadth, challenge and/or application as outlined in Building the Curriculum 5 • May involve accumulation, assimilation, integration and/or application of skills, knowledge and understanding • Uses 7 defined assessment methods • For Modern Languages Question Paper and Performance

  34. Controlled Assessment • Where the assessment method is not a question paper, SQA has introduced the concept of controlled assessment to ensure fairness and reliability • 3 stages of assessment: Setting, Conducting, Marking the assessment • Each will have a defined level of control: SQA-led activity, Shared responsibility between SQA and centres, Centre-led • Subject-specific decisions, but mostly SQA-led activity in initial years

  35. National 5 – Modern Languages Question Paper • Reading and Writing • Listening Coursework • Performance: Talking

  36. National 5 – Modern Languages Question Paper • Reading • 3 x texts of equal length and difficulty, each out of 10 • 3 of the four contexts • 1 supported overall purpose question • A further 5-7 supported marks across the texts • and Writing • 4 standard bullet points • 2 further bullet which change each year • Four contexts covered

  37. National 5 – Modern Languages Question Paper • Listening • 1 monologue marked out of 8 • 1 supported overall purpose question 1 • conversation marked out of 12 • 1 context for both (not covered in reading) • A further 1 or 2 supported marks across the texts

  38. National 5 – Modern Languages Coursework • Performance: Talking • presentation 10 marks • conversation 15 marks • natural element to the conversation5 marks

  39. National 4 Added Value Unit Assignment • National 4 v. SG/Int 1 • What is “Added Value”? • What is the Assignment? • How will it be conducted? • How will it be assessed?

  40. National 4 Added Value Unit Assignment Added Value Unit Outcome: Apply language skills to investigate and report on a chosen topic in the modern language by: • Understanding straightforward written texts in the modern language • Selecting relevant information from the texts • Giving an oral presentation in the modern language on the topic investigated • Responding to oral questions in the modern language relevant to the chosen topic.

  41. Adding Value – National 4, National 5 • Workshop Activity

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