Assessment categories Instruments must allow students to produce a Category 1 Extended — response that is mainly written response to developed from the sources historical evidence provided. Criteria assessed: Conditions: Forming historical essay under test conditions knowledge through critical inquiry unseen question Communicating historical no notes allowed knowledge. 1.5–2 hours recommended some sources seen, some unseen or all sources unseen types, relevance and reliability of sources varied contestable sources requiring evaluation of perspectives 600–800 Syllabus, p. 49 Category 2 Written Instruments must allow — research tasks students to produce a response that is either: Criteria assessed: written assignment Planning and using a — analytical essay in which a historical research process hypothesis is tested or Forming historical research question answered knowledge through critical or inquiry other form of presentation in Communicating historical which the results of the knowledge. research are presented in a written genre.
Assessment categories Category 1 — Extended written response to historical evidence Criteria assessed: Forming historical knowledge through critical inquiry Communicating historical knowledge. Instruments must allow students to produce a response that is mainly developed from the sources provided. Conditions: essay under test conditions unseen question no notes allowed 1.5–2 hours recommended some sources seen, some unseen or all sources unseen types, relevance and reliability of sources varied contestable sources requiring evaluation of perspectives 600–800 Syllabus, p. 49 Category 2 — Written research tasks Criteria assessed: Planning and using a historical research process Forming historical knowledge through critical inquiry Communicating historical knowledge. Instruments must allow students to produce a response that is either: written assignment — analytical essay in which a hypothesis is tested or research question answered or other form of presentation in which the results of the research are presented in a written genre.
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