English – Areas for Assessment
- Reading, listening, viewing
- Activities: Letters to the Editor - Food, Movie Review and User Comment, Film Analysis - Cinematography, Representation and critical analysis of a text, Literary evaluation, Literary recount
- Writing, speaking, representing
- Activities: Dramatic Monologue, Letters to the Editor - Food, Popular Film Review, Movie Review and User Comment, Film Analysis - Cinematography, Representation and critical analysis of a text, Literary evaluation, Literary recount, Literary Response
- Communicating and context
- Activities: Dramatic Monologue, Letters to the Editor - Food, Popular Film Review, Movie Review and User Comment, Film Analysis - Cinematography, Representation and critical analysis of a text, Literary evaluation, Literary recount, Literary Response
- Analysing language
- Activities: Letters to the Editor - Food, Popular Film Review, Movie Review and User Comment, Film Analysis - Cinematography, Literary evaluation
- Interpretive, imaginative and critical thinking
- Activities: Representation and critical analysis of a text, Literary evaluation, Literary recount
- Expressing views
- Activities: Dramatic Monologue, Letters to the Editor - Food, Popular Film Review, Movie Review and User Comment, Representation and critical analysis of a text, Literary evaluation, Literary Response
Areas for assessment provide a framework for structuring an assessment program, and may be used for reporting student achievement. They are derived from the course objectives, so they are linked to the course outcomes. Areas for assessment can be used as organisers for assessment of student achievement.
Good assessment practice involves designing quality assessment activities that enable students to demonstrate their achievements. Teachers can use the areas for assessment when designing an assessment activity, to ensure it is assessing performance in relation to a grouping of outcomes.
In designing the assessment schedule for a course, teachers may find it useful to map each planned assessment activity to one or more of the areas for assessment. This allows teachers to ensure that assessment in relation to outcomes can occur across the year in a manageable way.