3: DESCRIBE NEED FOR LAW, ITS SOURCES AND CATERGORIES RATING ‘C’ RATING ‘B’ RATING ‘A’ The learner: The learner: The learner: correctly identifies◊ reasons correctly describes◊ reasons explains◊ reasons for law for law and rules for law and rules and rules correctly identifies correctly describes explains differences between similarities and differences similarities and differences legal and non-legal rules, and between legal and non-legal between legal and non-legal describes similarities rules rules correctly positions given correctly describes explains differences between laws into given categories of differences between civil and civil and criminal law, law criminal law, and identifies identifies categories of law, categories of law and their and describes their characteristics characteristics correctly identifies sources correctly describes sources explains the different of law of law sources of law and describes the differences between Common Law and Statute Law correctly identifies court correctly describes court explains court hierarchy and hierarchy and jurisdiction, hierarchy and jurisdiction, jurisdiction, types of offenses types of offences and court types of offenses and court and court processes processes processes identifies some ways in describes some ways in explains a variety of ways in which individuals can which individuals can which individuals can influence law. influence law. influence law, and assesses◊ relative effectiveness of some methods. ◊See glossary of terms used in standards at the end of this section of the course document. 4: LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT IN AUSTRALIA RATING ‘C’ RATING ‘B’ RATING ‘A’ The learner: The learner: The learner: correctly identifies levels of correctly describes levels of explains levels of government in Australia, government in Australia, government in Australia, with reference to their roles their roles and their roles and and responsibilities responsibilities responsibilities
3: DESCRIBE NEED FOR LAW, ITS SOURCES AND CATERGORIES RATING ‘C’ RATING ‘B’ RATING ‘A’ The learner: The learner: The learner: correctly identifies◊ reasons for law and rules correctly describes◊ reasons for law and rules explains◊ reasons for law and rules correctly identifies similarities and differences between legal and non-legal rules correctly describes similarities and differences between legal and non-legal rules explains differences between legal and non-legal rules, and describes similarities correctly positions given laws into given categories of law correctly describes differences between civil and criminal law, and identifies categories of law and their characteristics explains differences between civil and criminal law, identifies categories of law, and describes their characteristics correctly identifies sources of law correctly describes sources of law explains the different sources of law and describes the differences between Common Law and Statute Law correctly identifies court hierarchy and jurisdiction, types of offences and court processes correctly describes court hierarchy and jurisdiction, types of offenses and court processes explains court hierarchy and jurisdiction, types of offenses and court processes identifies some ways in which individuals can influence law. describes some ways in which individuals can influence law. explains a variety of ways in which individuals can influence law, and assesses◊ relative effectiveness of some methods. ◊See glossary of terms used in standards at the end of this section of the course document. 4: LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT IN AUSTRALIA RATING ‘C’ RATING ‘B’ RATING ‘A’ The learner: The learner: The learner: correctly identifies levels of government in Australia, with reference to their roles and responsibilities correctly describes levels of government in Australia, their roles and responsibilities explains levels of government in Australia, their roles and responsibilities