Qualifications Update:

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Qualifications Update ESOL
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Key messages

• Features best approaches of current ESOL Higher
• Units Outcomes are skills-based and provide
  flexibility and choice through choice of
  contexts
• Learners study 2 Units ESOL for Everyday Life
  and ONE of the following ESOL in Work-related
  contexts OR ESOL in Study-related contexts
• Unit assessment support - illustrates assessment
  of skills
• Builds knowledge and understanding and
  development of skills progressively from National
  5
• Course is assessed by
• Question paper Listening, Reading Writing
• Coursework Performance Speaking and
  Listening
• Personalisation and choice in Coursework
  Performance

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Key messages

• The outcomes in each Unit are in following order
  outcome 1 reading, outcome 2 writing, outcome 3
  listening and outcome 4 speaking.
• Everyday Life now draws from personal, social,
  transactional, work and study-related contexts.
• Some changes to Course Assessment to reflect
  level of demand and challenge
• Reading in Course Assessment non-fiction

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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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ltltESOL Highergtgt Unit 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 Everyday Life, Work and
  Study contexts
• Package 2
• Combined approach groups Outcomes and
  Assessment Standards from different Units
  (Everyday Life combined with either Work or Study
  Contexts)
• Package 3
• Unit by Unit approach discrete assessment tasks
  for each Unit

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Assessment Support Package 1

• Unit by Unit Approach
• ESOL for Everyday Life 4 skills
• ESOL in Work-related Contexts
  Speaking/Listening
• ESOL in Study-related Contexts Reading/Writing
• Changes in Making Assessment Judgements to
  reflect Higher standard
• More open way of describing sufficiency of
  evidence in the fourth column

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Unit Assessment Support
Package 1 Package 2 Package 3 (tbc)
Everyday Life 1 assessment x 4 skills News and Newspapers theme linking the 4 skills Combined Approach 4 skills in Everyday Life and Work-related Contexts PLUS Everyday Life and Study-related Contexts Everyday Life Reading and Writing 1 assessment
ESOL in Work-related Contexts Listening and Speaking Effective Workplace Meetings Everyday Speaking/ Listening combined with Work- and Study -related Reading/Writing Procrastination and Changing Habits in three contexts ESOL in Work-related Contexts 1 assessment x Reading and Writing
ESOL in Study-related Contexts Reading and Writing Types of education and their benefits ESOL in Study-related Contexts Listening and Speaking
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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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ESOL Higher Higher 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 ESOL there are 2 Components a Question
  Paper for Listening and for Reading and Writing
  and a Performance (Speaking and Listening)
• Total marks for Course Assessment 100

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Higher Question Papergtgt

• Section A Listening, Section B Reading, Section
  C Writing
• set and marked by SQA, conducted in centres under
  conditions specified for external examinations by
  SQA
• 70 marks in total (20 for Listening and 50 for
  Reading and Writing)
• 2 hours 40 minutes total (30 minutes Listening
  and 2 hours 10 minutes for Reading and Writing)
• Listening 1 monologue and 1 spoken interaction
  10 marks each for questions on the texts
• Reading two texts total 25 marks for
  questions on the texts
• Writing two tasks total 25 marks Everyday
  Life 10 marks and Work or Study 15 marks
• In SQP Writing tasks are an e mail and either a
  report or an essay
• Writing assessed on the overall quality of the
  response and a mark allocated within the
  appropriate range using marking instructions
  provided by SQA.

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Higher Performance

• Speaking and Listening
• Conducted in centres
• Marked in accordance with grade descriptions in
  Course Specification, using performance criteria
  and marking instructions.
• 30 marks 25 speaking and 5 listening
  (responding to questions/comments)
• Discussion of 8 10 minutes with another person
  or group
• Time (and volume)

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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)