course goals, within and across colleges. Over a course, teachers use all of these criteria to assess students’ performance, but do not necessarily use all criteria on each task. Assessment criteria are to be used holistically on a given task and in determining the unit grade. Assessment Rubrics are used to develop criteria for a task type and a continuum that indicates levels of student achievement against each criterion. Board Requirements Students are expected to study the accredited semester 1.0 units unless enrolled in a 0.5 unit due to late entry or early exit in a semester. Where a 1.0 unit is delivered as a combination of two 0.5 units, the same percentage weighting for task types should be used. If not, separate mark books must be maintained and the 0.5 units must be meshed with the 1.0 standard unit following documented meshing procedures. These meshing procedures must be provided to students as part of the Unit Outline. General Assessment Criteria for A and T Students will be assessed in speaking, writing and responding tasks on the degree to which they demonstrate: communicating understanding. Guide to Assessment Tasks Assessment is to be differentiated for A and T courses. Assessment tasks in all courses need to be appropriate to the classification and cater for the needs of students. Creative, open-ended and rich learning tasks are recommended. Assessment Task Types for Beginning Language Course Strand Communicating Understanding Task Type Speaking Writing Responding Mandatory Unscripted Sustained writing in the Listening AND reading interview/conversation in target language, produced comprehension and Items the target language, with in class under test analysis with questions Must be one teacher/native speaker conditions in a minimum of and answers in English item with the comprised of unseen and 30 minutes in response to and/or the target minimum open ended questions an unseen question or language* mandatory based on content covered visual stimulus based on Over the course of two 0.5 weighting as in the unit presented on content covered in the unit units, both reading and shown CD, DVD or USB listening must be below. assessed. Minimum time limit: Minimum of 150 words *comprehensive testing of listening and reading skills 3 minutes Suggested task: letter, are required email, magazine article, blog Minimum for 25% of the unit total mark 25% of the unit total mark 25% of the unit mark Mandatory
course goals, within and across colleges. Over a course, teachers use all of these criteria to assess students’ performance, but do not necessarily use all criteria on each task. Assessment criteria are to be used holistically on a given task and in determining the unit grade. Assessment Rubrics are used to develop criteria for a task type and a continuum that indicates levels of student achievement against each criterion. Board Requirements Students are expected to study the accredited semester 1.0 units unless enrolled in a 0.5 unit due to late entry or early exit in a semester. Where a 1.0 unit is delivered as a combination of two 0.5 units, the same percentage weighting for task types should be used. If not, separate mark books must be maintained and the 0.5 units must be meshed with the 1.0 standard unit following documented meshing procedures. These meshing procedures must be provided to students as part of the Unit Outline. General Assessment Criteria for A and T Students will be assessed in speaking, writing and responding tasks on the degree to which they demonstrate: communicating understanding. Guide to Assessment Tasks Assessment is to be differentiated for A and T courses. Assessment tasks in all courses need to be appropriate to the classification and cater for the needs of students. Creative, open-ended and rich learning tasks are recommended. Assessment Task Types for Beginning Language Course Strand Communicating Understanding Task Type Speaking Writing Responding Mandatory Items Must be one item with the minimum mandatory weighting as shown below. Unscripted interview/conversation in the target language, with teacher/native speaker comprised of unseen and open ended questions based on content covered in the unit presented on CD, DVD or USB Sustained writing in the target language, produced in class under test conditions in a minimum of 30 minutes in response to an unseen question or visual stimulus based on content covered in the unit Listening AND reading comprehension and analysis with questions and answers in English and/or the target language* Over the course of two 0.5 units, both reading and listening must be assessed. Minimum time limit: 3 minutes Minimum of 150 words Suggested task: letter, email, magazine article, blog *comprehensive testing of listening and reading skills are required Minimum for Mandatory 25% of the unit total mark 25% of the unit total mark 25% of the unit mark
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