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Assessment program audit toolFor Authority subjects

English 2010The purpose of this audit tool is to enable schools to compare the requirements of their assessment program with the minimum assessment requirements of the syllabus, and to subsequently consider possible amendments to their school work program.

Assessment instruments required in Year 12 (including objectives and dimensions assessed)

Conditions required by the syllabus, e.g. word length, time, genre

School assessment instruments (including objectives and dimensions assessed)

Conditions in school work program

Variations

Refer to syllabus verification and post-verification requirements

Refer to the syllabus assessment section

Refer to the school’s approved work program

Refer to the school’s approved work program

How does the school’s assessment program differ from syllabus requirements?

Verification requirements

Five assessment instruments of which three are written and two are spoken/signed: the three written instruments

must include these text categories:- one expository text- one imaginative text- one persuasive or

reflective text suitable for a public audience

School assessment program1.

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Assessment instruments required in Year 12 (including objectives and dimensions assessed)

Conditions required by the syllabus, e.g. word length, time, genre

School assessment instruments (including objectives and dimensions assessed)

Conditions in school work program

Variations

the spoken/signed instruments in the verification folio must include two of these text categories- an expository text- an imaginative text- a persuasive or reflective

text suitable for a public audience.

In the verification folio there must be evidence that:- all assessment

instruments must allow students to demonstrate their achievement in all three dimensions

- across all five instruments, all aspects of the dimensions and objectives have been demonstrated at least once.

Assessment categoriesSupervised written

Written: analytical expositionAssesses response to an unseen question based on an in-depth study of a complete literary text.Must assess relevant

Conditions: unseen question conducted under supervised

conditions where there is no question of student authorship

completed in one uninterrupted session

600–800 words 1.5–2 hours.

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Assessment instruments required in Year 12 (including objectives and dimensions assessed)

Conditions required by the syllabus, e.g. word length, time, genre

School assessment instruments (including objectives and dimensions assessed)

Conditions in school work program

Variations

objectives from: Understanding and

responding to contexts Understanding and

controlling textual features Creating and evaluating

meaning.

Syllabus, pp. 21–2,3

Written: imaginative textMust assess relevant objectives from: Understanding and

responding to contexts Understanding and

controlling textual features Creating and evaluating

meaning.

Conditions: students allowed prior notice

of task completed under supervised

conditions where there is no question of student authorship and with no access to feedback

completed within five school days

genre chosen by school 600–800 words

or open conditions (depending

on conditions chosen for persuasive or reflective text)

genre chosen by school 800–1200 words.Syllabus, pp. 20–22

3.

Written: persuasive or reflective text suitable for a public audienceMust assess relevant objectives from:

Conditions: supervised with no access to feedback students allowed prior notice

4.

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Assessment instruments required in Year 12 (including objectives and dimensions assessed)

Conditions required by the syllabus, e.g. word length, time, genre

School assessment instruments (including objectives and dimensions assessed)

Conditions in school work program

Variations

Understanding and responding to contexts

Understanding and controlling textual features

Creating and evaluating meaning.

of task completed within five school

days genre chosen by school 600–800 words

or open conditions

(depending on conditions chosen for imaginative text)

genre chosen by school 800–1200 words (extended

response).Syllabus, pp. 20–22

Spoken/signedMust assess relevant objectives from: Understanding and

responding to contexts Understanding and

controlling textual features Creating and evaluating

meaning.

Must be one of three text categories: expository imaginative persuasive or reflective text

suitable for a public audience.

Conditions: genre chosen by school spoken/signed

4–5 minutes multimodal 5–7 minutes at least one of the two

spoken/signed responses must be individual.

Syllabus, pp. 20–22

5.

Spoken/signed Must be one of three text

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Assessment instruments required in Year 12 (including objectives and dimensions assessed)

Conditions required by the syllabus, e.g. word length, time, genre

School assessment instruments (including objectives and dimensions assessed)

Conditions in school work program

Variations

Must assess relevant objectives from: Understanding and

responding to contexts Understanding and

controlling textual features Creating and evaluating

meaning.

categories not chosen for other spoken/signed instrument: expository imaginative persuasive or reflective text

suitable for a public audience.

Conditions: genre chosen by school spoken/signed

4–5 minutes multimodal 5–7 minutes at least one of the two

spoken/signed responses must be individual.

Post-verification requirements

At least one post-verification assessment instrument — may be written or spoken/signedMust assess relevant objectives from: Understanding and

responding to contexts Understanding and

controlling textual features Creating and evaluating

meaning.

Conditions: genre, mode and conditions

chosen by school written: 800–1200 words spoken/signed

4–5 minutes multimodal 5–7 minutes

Syllabus, pp. 20–22

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Summary Where the school’s assessment plan differs from the minimum syllabus requirements, consider:

are these choices the most effective way to gather information about student learning?

what is the rationale behind these school decisions?

what changes could be made to the school’s work program?

More informationPlease email qau@qcaa.qld.edu.au or phone (07) 3864 0375.