Textiles Technology – Areas for Assessment
- Properties and performance
- Activities: Slipper Deconstruction, Inspirational Bags - Evaluation Report, Selection and Use of Textiles, Student Negotiated Textile Project
- Textiles and society
- Activities: Influences on Costume Design
- Designing and communicating
- Activities: Influences on Costume Design, Student Negotiated Textile Project
- Using textiles
- Activities: Selection and Use of Textiles, Experimentation with Construction and Decorative Techniques, Managing Quality Textile Projects, Textile Item, Student Negotiated Textile Project
- Producing and evaluating textiles
- Activities: Inspirational Bags - Evaluation Report, Experimentation with Construction and Decorative Techniques, Textile Item, Student Negotiated Textile Project
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.