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Qualifications Update: Latin

Qualifications Update: Latin. Developing qualifications - drivers. Progression – provide progression from Es & Os and maximise continuity between levels More open and flexible requirements – fewer, broader outcomes, more focus on skills

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Qualifications Update: Latin

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  1. Qualifications Update: Latin

  2. Developing qualifications - drivers • Progression – provide progression from Es & Os and maximise continuity between levels • More open and flexible requirements – fewer, broader outcomes, more focus on skills • Assessment which supports learning - open evidence requirements – choice of assessment approaches – opportunities for combined assessment • Refreshed and relevant contexts for learning, providing challenge and enjoyment • Personalisation and Choice – in content/contexts for Units - Added Value Unit at National 4 – coursework assessment at National 5 • Robust and credible – current high standards in qualifications will be maintained

  3. Relationship between CfE and SCQF Levels Continues to 12 ≈ SCQF Levels 4 4 CfE Levels 3 3 2 2 1 1 early years

  4. Key points Combines best aspects of current Standard Grade and Intermediate Latin: • An added value assessment providing personalisation and choice in an Assignment at National 4 • Refreshed Prescribed Texts for Literary Appreciation at National 5 (The Poems of Catullus, Ovid Metamorphoses VIII, Virgil Aeneid II,Pliny Letters, Cicero In Verrem IV) and flexibility in texts used at National 3 and National 4 • Question on aspects of Roman culture: Literary Appreciation Unit and Course Assessment • New Marking Instructions for translating in Course Assessment at National 5: 2, 1, 0.

  5. Unit Structure

  6. New Quality Assurance arrangements • Will cover new National 1 to National 5 from 2013/14 • New arrangements will promote shared understanding of national standards through a collaborative and partnership approach • New ‘Nominee’ role - provides a pool of nationally trained experts • Intense verification in the first 3 years, then an intelligence led approach will be adopted • Verification in Nov/Dec, Feb and Apr/May - allows for early identification of issues and support/guidance to be given

  7. Assessment Support Schedule 2012/13

  8. Latin Unit AssessmentNational 3 to National 5

  9. 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 packages • 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

  10. Unit Assessment Support packages – purpose Assessment support packages will be provided which you can use to: • Assess your candidates • Adapt for your own assessment programmes • Help you develop your own assessments

  11. Unit Assessment Support packages – key features • Valid from August 2013 • 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 and how this is to be judged against Assessment Standards

  12. Unit assessment support packages - approaches Package 1 • Unit by Unit approach – discrete assessment tasks for each Unit Package 2 • Portfolio approach – groups Outcomes and Assessment Standards from different Units – linking Translating and Literary Appreciation by theme and by author Package 3 • Unit by Unit approach – discrete assessment tasks for each Unit

  13. Assessment Package 1 Unit by Unit Approach • Latin: Translating - 2 assessments per level • Latin: Literary Appreciation - 2 assessments per level using two authors (3 at National 5) • Each package covers Outcome, Assessment Standards and Evidence requirements for either Translating or Literary Appreciation • Key points: making assessment judgements using criteria, evidence may be oral or written, culture question in Literary Appreciation, flexibility of choice with texts at National 3 and National 4, prescribed texts refreshed at National 5)

  14. Unit Assessment Support

  15. Latin Added Value Assessments:- National 5 Course Assessment- National 4 Added Value Unit

  16. Adding Value – National 4, National 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 (as at present)

  17. 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 • Uses 7 defined assessment methods (there are usually two of these)

  18. Controlled Assessment • Where the assessment method is not a question paper, SQA has introduced the concept of controlled assessment to ensure fairness and reliability • 3 stages of assessment: Setting, Conducting, Marking the assessment • Each will have a defined level of control: SQA-led activity, Shared responsibility between SQA and Centres, Centre-led • Subject-specific decisions, but mostly SQA-led activity in initial years

  19. National 5 – Latin Course Assessment • Question Paper Latin: Translating 50% 30 marks • Question Paper Latin : Literary Appreciation 50% 30 marks • Externally marked • Samples skills, knowledge and understanding from the Course Specification and Course Assessment Specification • Includes accidence and syntax and refreshed prescribed texts • Draws on style of questions in Standard Grade and Intermediate 2

  20. National 5 – Translating • 1 hour paper • Detailed unseen Latin prose text • 15 blocks worth 2 marks each for accurate/near accurate translation; 1 mark for essential idea • Marking now 2, 1, 0 basis • No scaling

  21. National 5 – Literary Appreciation • 1 hour paper • Analysis and Evaluation of refreshed prescribed texts – available on SQA website and provided with the Question Paper separately • Choice of two authors from five • Short answer, restricted and extended response questions • One question on an aspect of Roman culture related to the text

  22. National 5 – Refreshed Texts • The Poems of Catullus • Ovid Metamorphoses VIII • Virgil Aeneid II • Pliny Letters • Cicero in Verrem IV

  23. National 4 Added Value Unit Latin: Assignment • Allows demonstration of challenge and application • Assesses skills in translating; selecting relevant information about aspects of Roman culture; presenting findings in English and responding to questions • Internally marked

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