Modern Languages

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Modern Languages
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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 Packs
• Assessments can be designed to provide evidence
  across more than one Outcome or Unit combined
  assessments
• More opportunities to gather evidence as part of
  learning and teaching

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Unit Assessment Support Pack (UASP)- purpose

• Assess your candidates
• Adapt for your own assessment programmes
• Help you develop your own assessments

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UASP Key Features

• Designed to encourage professional judgement
• Provide broad-based tasks allow assessors to
  choose appropriate context and forms of evidence
• Show a 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 Outcomes and Assessment Standards

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UASP - Structure Structure

• Outcomes and Assessment Standards
• Purpose
• Overview of assessment
• Assessment conditions
• Evidence to be gathered
• Judging Evidence Tables
• Re-assessment arrangements
• Samples of recording documentation
• Appendix 1

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Adding Value National 4 and 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

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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

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Verification Evidence Checklist

• Evidence of the centres internal quality
  assurance processes
• Details entered on verification sample form and
  candidate evidence flyleaf, and on the centres
  assessment record or equivalent
• The assessment or other stimuli that has
  generated the judged candidate evidence
• The candidates evidence with the assessment
  judgement(s)

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