Qualifications Update:

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Qualifications Update Modern Languages
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Key messages Modern Languages

• Units Outcomes are skills-based and provide
  flexibility and choice through choice of
  contexts society, learning, employability and
  culture
• Candidates study 2 Units Modern Languages
  Understanding Language Modern Languages Using
  Language
• Unit assessment support - illustrates assessment
  of the 4 language skills
• Builds knowledge and understanding and
  development of skills progressively from National
  5
• Course is assessed by
• Question paper Reading and Directed Writing,
  Listening and Writing
• Coursework Performance Talking

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Key messages Modern Languages

• Units develop skills in reading, listening,
  talking and writing using detailed and complex
  language
• Overall purpose in Reading and Listening in Units
  and in Course Assessment
• Some changes to Course Assessment to reflect
  level of demand and challenge
• Unit Assessment Support Packs illustrate
  approaches to assessment through the 4 contexts
  of society, learning, employability and culture
• Audio recordings will be available for Listening
  Unit Assessments by summer 2014

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Key messages from Verification (Round 1)

• Use valid and reliable assessments
• SQA-produced Unit Assessment Support Packs
• Centre devised assessments that have been prior
  verified
• Your own assessments advise you have these
  prior verified
• Judging assessments
• SQA packs are designed on a pass/fail basis
• Use Judging Evidence Tables to make assessment
  judgments against Assessment Standards
• Judging Evidence Tables have commentary on how to
  meet each Assessment Standard
• A task/activity can meet most or all of the Unit
  Outcome and Assessment Standards
• Indicate on candidates work that Unit Assessment
  Standards have been met
• Unit Assessment complementing learning and
  teaching
• Unit Assessment is open and flexible
• Assessment should allow you space to prepare for
  Added Value/Course Assessment

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Assessment Support Schedule 2013/14
Sept 13 CfE Update Letter
Oct 13 Unit Assessment Support (Package 1)
Feb 14 Unit Assessment Support (Package 2)
Feb 14 Higher Specimen Question Paper
Mar 14 Coursework General Assessment Information
Apr 14 Unit Assessment Support (Package 3)
May 14 Update Mandatory Documents
Jun 14 Update Unit Assessment Support
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Modern LanguagesUnit Assessmentat Higher
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Unit assessment - recap

• Flexible and open Assessment Standards and
  Evidence Requirements in Units
• Greater range of techniques and methodologies for
  assessment encouraged
• Assessments can be designed to provide evidence
  across more than one outcome or Unit combined
  assessments
• More opportunities to gather naturally occurring
  evidence assessment as part of learning and
  teaching
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Unit Assessment Support purpose

• As at National 5, Assessment Support will be
  provided which you can use to
• Assess your candidates
• Adapt for your own assessment programmes
• Help you develop your own assessments

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Unit Assessment Support at Higher key features

• Valid from August 2014
• Complements and supports learning and teaching
• Assess competence against Unit Outcomes and
  Assessment Standards
• Designed to encourage professional judgement
• Provide broad-based tasks allow assessors to
  choose appropriate context and forms of evidence
• Show range of approaches to generating assessment
  evidence
• Give information on the type of evidence which
  could be gathered

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Unit assessment support
packages at Higher - approaches

• Package 1
• Unit by Unit approach discrete assessment
  tasks for each Unit
• Package 2
• Combined approach groups Outcomes and
  Assessment Standards from different Units
• Package 3
• Combined approach groups Outcomes and
  Assessment Standards from different Units

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Proposed Unit Assessment Support for
HigherModern Languages
Language UASP1 - RL UASP1 - WT UASP2 RW UASP2 LT UASP3 RT UASP3 - LW
French Society society culture culture Employability Learning
Spanish Learning Employability Society society culture culture
German culture culture Employability Learning Society society
Cantonese Society society culture culture Learning Employability
Italian Learning Employability Society society culture culture
Gaelic (L) culture culture Learning Employability Society society
Mandarin Society society culture culture Learning Employability
Urdu Learning Employability Society society culture culture
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Assessment Support Package 1 French

• Two packs both unit by unit.
• Context Society
• Detailed and complex language
• Understanding language - Reading and Listening
• Social Networking and Smoking / health
• Covers all outcomes and assessment standards for
  understanding language
• 1.1/2.1 Identify overall purpose and main points
• 1.2/2.2 Apply knowledge and understanding of the
  Modern language

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Assessment Support Package 1 French

• Using language - Talking and Writing
• Language learning
• Covers all outcomes and assessment standards for
  using language
• 1.1/2.1 Using relevant ideas and content
• Focus on Content
• 1.2/2.2 Apply grammatical knowledge and
  understanding
• Focus on language Resource
• 1.3/2.3 Convey meaning/ communicate
• Focus on Accuracy

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Assessment Support Package 1 Gaelic learners
and Urdu

• Both in English
• Unit by Unit
• Gaelic Culture
• Urdu Learning and Employability

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Workshop 1

• Using the materials provided, in small groups of
  2-3, discuss
• The assessment task in the Unit Assessment
  Support provided
• How to generate evidence for the Unit Assessment
  Support provided
• How to make assessment judgements for the Unit
  Assessment Support provided

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Modern LanguagesHigher Course Assessment
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Course Assessment at Higher

• Course Assessment at National 5, Higher and
  Advanced Higher assesses Added Value
• Courses at Higher are normally assessed by one or
  two Components
• Courses at Higher are graded A D, as at present
• Controlled Assessment of setting, conducting and
  marking
• For Modern Languages there are 2 Components a
  Question Paper and a Performance

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Higher Reading

• Reading
• One written text in the modern language of
  approximately 600 words (650-800 Chinese
  characters).
• The text will be based on one or two of the
  following Contexts society, learning,
  employability or culture.
• Overall Purpose Question 2 marks, unsupported
• Translation of a section of the text into
  English
• Questions worth 20 marks and Translation 10 marks

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Higher Directed Writing

• Candidates must address FOUR bullet points from
  one of the chosen stimuli.
• The question paper will be externally assessed in
  accordance with pegged Marking Instructions
• Candidates will write between 120-150 words
  (150-180 Chinese characters). The  Directed
  Writing will be worth 10 marks.   
• The Reading and Directed Writing question paper
  is worth 40 marks and the duration will be 1 hour
  40 minutes.

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Higher Listening

• A Monologue and Conversation in the modern
  language from same context
• Linked thematically (contexts not sampled in
  reading)
• The questions will be worth a total of 20 marks
  8 marks in the monologue and 12 marks in the
  conversation
• Overall purpose question 1 mark, supported

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Higher Writing

• One written text in response to stimulus from
  Listening theme
• Limited number of questions set
• Candidates will write between 120-150 words
  (150-280 Chinese characters)..
• 10 marks awarded using pegged Marking
  Instructions

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Higher Performance

• A presentation in the modern language
• On one of the four contexts (society, learning,
  employability or culture)
• Followed by conversation using detailed and
  complex language
• The conversation will follow on from the context
  of the presentation and develop into at least one
  other context. 
• 30 marks

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Workshop 2

• The requirements of the Higher Course Assessment
• How these requirements build on the Higher Units
• How these requirements build on National 5 (where
  appropriate)