Qualifications Update:Modern Languages

Qualifications Update:Modern Languages

• Units Outcomes are skills-based and provide flexibility and choice through choice of contexts: society, learning, employability and culture

• Candidates study 2 Units: Modern Languages: Understanding Language; Modern Languages: Using Language

• Unit assessment support - illustrates assessment of the 4 language skills

• Builds knowledge and understanding and development of skills progressively from National 5

• Course is assessed by: Question paper: Reading and Directed Writing, Listening and Writing Coursework: Performance – Talking

Key messages – Modern LanguagesKey messages – Modern Languages

• Units develop skills in reading, listening, talking and writing using detailed and complex language

• Overall purpose in Reading and Listening in Units and in Course Assessment

• Some changes to Course Assessment to reflect level of demand and challenge

• Unit Assessment Support Packs – illustrate approaches to assessment through the 4 contexts of society, learning, employability and culture

• Audio recordings will be available for Listening Unit Assessments by summer 2014

Key messages – Modern LanguagesKey messages – Modern Languages

• Use valid and reliable assessments- SQA-produced Unit Assessment Support Packs- Centre devised assessments that have been prior verified- Your own assessments – advise you have these prior verified

• Judging assessments- SQA packs are designed on a pass/fail basis- Use Judging Evidence Tables to make assessment judgments against Assessment

Standards- Judging Evidence Tables have commentary on how to meet each Assessment Standard- A task/activity can meet most or all of the Unit Outcome and Assessment Standards- Indicate on candidate’s work that Unit Assessment Standards have been met

• Unit Assessment complementing learning and teaching- Unit Assessment is open and flexible- Assessment should allow you space to prepare for Added Value/Course Assessment

Key messages Key messages from Verification (Round 1)

Assessment Support Schedule 2013/14 Assessment Support Schedule 2013/14

Sept 13 CfE Update Letter

Oct 13 Unit Assessment Support (Package 1)

Feb 14 Unit Assessment Support (Package 2)

Feb 14 Higher Specimen Question Paper

Mar 14 Coursework General Assessment Information

Apr 14 Unit Assessment Support (Package 3)

May 14 Update Mandatory Documents

Jun 14 Update Unit Assessment Support

Modern LanguagesUnit Assessment

at Higher

Modern LanguagesUnit Assessment

at Higher

Unit assessment - recapUnit assessment - recap• Flexible and open Assessment Standards and Evidence

Requirements in Units

• Greater range of techniques and methodologies for assessment – encouraged

• 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

Unit Assessment Support purpose Unit Assessment Support purpose

As at National 5, Assessment Support will be provided which you can use to:

•Assess your candidates

•Adapt for your own assessment programmes

•Help you develop your own assessments

Unit Assessment Support at HigherUnit Assessment Support at Higher – key features – key features

• Valid from August 2014

• Complements and supports learning and teaching

• Assess competence against Unit Outcomes and Assessment Standards

• 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

Unit assessment support Unit assessment support packages at Higher - approachespackages at Higher - approaches

Package 1 • Unit by Unit approach – discrete assessment

tasks for each UnitPackage 2 • Combined approach – groups Outcomes and

Assessment Standards from different UnitsPackage 3 • Combined approach – groups Outcomes and

Assessment Standards from different Units

Proposed Unit Assessment Support for HigherProposed Unit Assessment Support for HigherModern LanguagesModern Languages

Language UASP1 - RL UASP1 - WT

UASP2 – RW

UASP2 – LT UASP3 – RT UASP3 - LW

French Society society culture culture Employability Learning

Spanish Learning Employability Society society culture culture

German culture culture Employability Learning Society society

Cantonese Society society culture culture Learning Employability

Italian Learning Employability Society society culture culture

Gaelic (L) culture culture Learning Employability Society society

Mandarin Society society culture culture Learning Employability

Urdu Learning Employability Society society culture culture

Assessment Support Package 1 Assessment Support Package 1 FrenchFrench

Two packs both unit by unit. Context Society Detailed and complex language Understanding language - Reading and Listening

Social Networking and Smoking / health Covers all outcomes and assessment standards

for understanding language1.1/2.1 Identify overall purpose and main points1.2/2.2 Apply knowledge and understanding of

the Modern language

Assessment Support Package 1 Assessment Support Package 1 FrenchFrench

Using language - Talking and Writing Language learningCovers all outcomes and assessment standards

for using language 1.1/2.1 Using relevant ideas and content Focus on Content 1.2/2.2 Apply grammatical knowledge and

understanding Focus on language Resource 1.3/2.3 Convey meaning/ communicate Focus on Accuracy

Assessment Support Package 1 Assessment Support Package 1 Gaelic learners and UrduGaelic learners and Urdu

Both in English Unit by Unit Gaelic – Culture Urdu – Learning and Employability

Workshop 1Workshop 1Using the materials provided, in small groups of 2-3, discuss:-The assessment task in the Unit Assessment Support provided-How to generate evidence for the Unit Assessment Support provided-How to make assessment judgements for the Unit Assessment Support provided

Modern LanguagesHigher Course Assessment

Modern LanguagesHigher Course Assessment

Course Assessment at HigherCourse Assessment at Higher• Course Assessment at National 5, Higher and

Advanced Higher assesses Added Value

• Courses at Higher are normally assessed by one or two Components

• Courses at Higher are graded A – D, as at present

• Controlled Assessment of setting, conducting and marking

• For Modern Languages there are 2 Components – a Question Paper and a Performance

Higher – ReadingHigher – Reading Reading

• One written text in the modern language of approximately 600 words (650-800 Chinese characters).

• The text will be based on one or two of the following Contexts: society, learning, employability or culture.

• Overall Purpose Question – 2 marks, unsupported• Translation of a section of the text into English• Questions worth 20 marks and Translation 10 marks

Higher Directed WritingHigher Directed Writing • Candidates must address FOUR bullet points from one of the

chosen stimuli.

• The question paper will be externally assessed in accordance with pegged Marking Instructions

• Candidates will write between 120-150 words (150-180 Chinese characters). The Directed Writing will be worth 10 marks.

• The Reading and Directed Writing question paper is worth 40 marks and the duration will be 1 hour 40 minutes.

Higher Listening Higher Listening

• A Monologue and Conversation in the modern language from same context

• Linked thematically (contexts not sampled in reading)

• The questions will be worth a total of 20 marks: 8 marks in the monologue and 12 marks in the conversation

• Overall purpose question – 1 mark, supported

• One written text in response to stimulus from Listening theme

• Limited number of questions set• Candidates will write between 120-150 words

(150-280 Chinese characters)..• 10 marks awarded using pegged Marking

Instructions

Higher WritingHigher Writing

Higher – Performance• A presentation in the modern language• On one of the four contexts (society, learning,

employability or culture) • Followed by conversation using detailed and complex

language• The conversation will follow on from the context of

the presentation and develop into at least one other context.

• 30 marks

Workshop 2Workshop 2- The requirements of the Higher Course Assessment- How these requirements build on the Higher Units- How these requirements build on National 5 (where

appropriate)