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New Advanced Higher Subject Implementation Events Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies:
Unit Assessment at Advanced Higher
Unit 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
As at Higher, 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
your own assessments
Unit Assessment Support at Advanced Higher – Key Features
Valid from August 2015
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 at Advanced Higher – Approaches
Package 1 Unit by Unit approach for – discrete assessment tasks for each Unit (Philosophy of Religion, Medical Ethics, Religious Experience)Portfolio approach for Researching Unit
Package 2 Unit by Unit approach – discrete assessment tasks for each Unit (Philosophy of Religion, Medical Ethics, Religious Experience)
Package 3 Portfolio approach – naturally occurring evidence (Philosophy of Religion, Medical Ethics, Religious Experience)
Unit Assessment Support at Advanced Higher – Researching Unit
Develop independent research skills in the context of complex religious, moral or philosophical issues 1.1 Justifying an appropriate, complex religious, moral or philosophical issue for research
1.2 Planning a programme of research
1.3 Researching, collecting and recording information in an organised way
1.4 Explaining approaches to organising, presenting and referencing findings.
1.5 Correctly referencing a source using an appropriate referencing system
Unit Assessment Support at Advanced Higher – Amendments
Subject Update Letter – January 2015 Planned changes to Unit Specifications
Minimise over-assessment
Assessment Support Package Example
Unit Assessment Support
Philosophy of Religion
Package 2: Unit by Unit Approach
Document Read Through
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Overview of Assessment:
Outline of the example task
Advice on how to adapt the task
Evidence in one form may be supplemented with evidence in other forms
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Assessment Conditions
Level of teacher/lecturer support should be appropriate but evidence must be the candidate's own work
When group work is used, evidence of individual achievement is required
Centres responsibility to ensure that all evidence is the individual candidate’s work
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Assessment Conditions (continued)
Only apply restrictions which are required by the Assessment Standards
No time restrictions - candidates should have sufficient time to complete the task
No restrictions on resources which candidates may use in the assessment
Same conditions apply National 3 – Higher
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Evidence to be gathered
A range of possible forms of evidence may be appropriate
Keep accurate records of the candidate meeting the Assessment Standards
Only need sufficient evidence to show achievement of the Assessment Standards once
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Judging Evidence Table tells you how to judge evidence against the Assessment Standards
Illustrations of possible candidate responses
Approach used can change, Outcome / Assessment Standards do not change
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Re-assessment arrangements
Assessment should be carried out when the individual candidate is ready
If a candidate fails to provide evidence for all the Assessment Standards, it is only necessary to re-assess the individual
Assessment Standard that they have yet to achieve
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Examples of recording documentation
Exemplar tables for recording candidate’s/group’s achievement of Assessment Standards
These can be adapted as required
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Assessment Task
Aligns with the prompts in the Overview of Assessment section
Exemplifies one context in which Unit assessment may take place
Workshop 1Unit Assessment
Using the materials provided, in small groups of 2-3, discuss: Identify subject-specific topics for discussion
Workshop Aims To understand the assessment and evidence requirements of
Unit Assessment To consider a range of ways of generating evidence for the Unit
Assessment Support provided
Using the materials provided, in small groups of 2-3, discuss: Definitions of skills and descriptions of minimum competence Ways to minimise assessment (e.g. using one piece of evidence
to meet multiple Assessment Standards) Renewed focus on Researching Unit and what it will mean for
your practice