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Assessing Geography in P–6 Part 1: Planning an assessment program
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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.
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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?
Booklet, p. 1
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Section 2: How do I assess Geography?
Image: Caitlin Regan, Cultural map, CC BY 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/5KNYMX
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Australian Curriculum and QCAA resources
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Planning assessment: Start with the rationale
www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/humanities-and-social-sciences/geography/rationale
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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
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Activity 2: The big ideas and your practice
Teaching
Learning
Big
ideas
Participant booklet, p. 2
Assessment
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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
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Activity 3: Examining the Geography achievement standards
In Queensland, the achievement standard represents a C standard.
Participant booklet, p. 4
www.acara.edu.au/curriculum/worksamples/Year_3_Geography_Portfolio.pdf
Student work sample
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Activity 3 — Highlighting
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Australian Curriculum and QCAA resources
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Valued features 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
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Activity 4: Identifying the valued features
Booklet, p. 5
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Australian Curriculum and QCAA resources
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Geography SEs
5-point scale Folio of
work
Achievement standard
Valued features
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Activity 5: Examining the SEs
Select the top row of the SEs in your booklet. Read the A descriptor.
Identify the language used for: • cognition (the doing) • elements (curriculum content) • degree (how well).
Participant booklet, p. 6
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Activity 5: SE language identified
comprehensive description of the characteristics of different places at the local scale and identification and comprehensive description of similarities and differences between the characteristics of these places
Degree (orange)
Cognition (blue)
Elements (no highlight)
Participant booklet, p. 6
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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. 6
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Step 2: Paste selected rows into a matrix or continua template
www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/p_10/ac_geog_tss_matrix.dotx
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Step 3: Edit the elements to develop task-specific descriptors
From the SE descriptors
To task-specific descriptors
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Learning goals
The learning goals for Part 1 of this workshop series 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.
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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.
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Questions
Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority, Australian Curriculum Unit T (07) 3864 0462 E [email protected]
Image: Raymond Bryson, Question box, CC By 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/fGyo6Q.