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Assessing Geography in Years 7–10 Part 1: Planning an assessment program
Learning goals
This workshop is delivered in two parts. The learning goals for Part 1: Planning an assessment program are: • know and understand how to use the Australian
Curriculum achievement standard • know and understand how to use the QCAA
standard elaborations • identify how to develop task-specific standards to
inform judgments.
Activity 1: Identifying learning goals
Let’s pause and think about assessing Geography.
What do you already KNOW?
What do you WANT to learn today?
What have you LEARNT?
Participant booklet, p. 1
Section 2: How do I assess Geography?
Image: Caitlin Regan, Cultural map, CC BY 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/5KNYMX
Australian Curriculum and QCAA resources
Planning assessment: Start with the rationale
www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/humanities-and-social-sciences/geography/rationale
Geography: What are the big ideas?
Image: Teaching and Learning in South Australia, Department for Education and Child Development, CC BY 3.0, www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgGb8BM2TBk
Activity 2: The big ideas and your practice
Teaching
Learning
Big
ideas
Assessment
Participant booklet, p. 2
P–10 standards terminology
Past Present Assessable elements
Valued features
Guides to making judgments
Task-specific standards
Matrix and continua
Matrix and continua
Learning area standard descriptors
Year level standard elaborations
Meaning Criteria used to collect evidence in a subject area Criteria sheets, rubrics
Models for task-specific standards
Elaborations of the AC achievement standards for A‒E (or other 5-point scale)
Participant booklet, p. 3
Activity 3: Examining the Geography achievement standard
In Queensland, the achievement standard represents a C standard.
Participant booklet, p. 4
http://www.acara.edu.au/curriculum/worksamples/Year_9_Geography_Portfolio.pdf
Student work sample
Activity 3 — Highlighting
Australian Curriculum and QCAA resources
Content strands and sub-strands Valued features Geographical Knowledge and Understanding
Knowledge and understanding
Geographical Inquiry and Skills Comprising: Observing, questioning and planning
Questioning and researching
Collecting, recording, evaluating and representing Interpreting, analysing and concluding
Interpreting and analysing
Reflecting and responding
Communicating Communicating
Valued features
Activity 4: Identifying the valued features
Participant booklet, pp. 5‒6
Australian Curriculum and QCAA resources
Geography SEs
Valued features
5-point scale
Folio of work
Achievement standard
Activity 5: Examining the SEs
Select the top row of the SE in your booklet. Read the A descriptor.
Identify the language used for: • cognition (the doing) • elements (curriculum content) • degree (how well).
Participant booklet, p. 7
Activity 5: Examining the SEs
comprehensive explanation of how geographic processes change the characteristics of places
Degree (orange)
Cognition (blue)
Elements (no highlight)
Booklet, p. 7
Glossary terms
Activity 6: Developing task-specific standards Step 1: Select the relevant rows from the SE. • Consider the task requirements and the C-descriptors. • The C-descriptors are drawn directly from the achievement standard.
Participant booklet, p. 7
Step 2: Paste selected rows into a matrix or continua template
www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/p_10/ac_geog_tss_matrix.dotx
Step 3: Edit the elements to develop task-specific descriptors From the SE descriptors
To task-specific descriptors
Learning goals The learning goals for Part 1 of this workshop are: • know and understand how to use the Australian
Curriculum achievement standard • know and understand how to use the QCAA
standard elaborations • identify how to develop task-specific standards to
inform judgments.
3–2–1 Reflect
Take a moment to reflect on: • 3 things you recall from this workshop session • 2 connections to your own assessment practice • 1 question that still lingers.
Questions
Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority, Australian Curriculum queries T. (07) 3864 0299 E. [email protected]
Image: Raymond Bryson, Question box, CC By 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/fGyo6Q.
