Personal Finance Award Solar - enhancing the assessment of the Personal Finance Award Graeme Clark Personal Finance Award Solar - enhancing the assessment of the Personal Finance Award Graeme Clark

Technologies and content  E-testing (Solar) – summative and formative assessment delivery  E-Portfolio’s for SfW  Games-based assessment and use of social software to assess group work using wikis and blogs  Flexible Web-based learning materials  tools to support improvement in the learning and assessment experience  CPD using/through SQA Academy

Solar e-assessments  Summative and Formative e-assessments  Banks of questions authored and QA by subject specialists  Input to central system and managed by SQA  Available freely to all SQA centres  Majority of content for HN & National Certificates  Increasing range of NQ provision 

Solar e-assessments  Summative –Pre-verified and automatically marked –Unit and topic based –Item bank (no versions) –Secure web-based delivery  Authored, peer reviewed by subject specialists  No requirement for internal or external verification of assessments/results

Solar e-assessments  Formative –Item banks of topic/unit-based questions with the addition of rich context-specific feedback –Using a minimum range of 6 different question types –Available direct to learners –Supporting learning rather than practice for assessment/exam –Use of audio/animation/other graphical media as required. 

Other new Content incl. PDAs in Bricklaying – 2010/11 SVQs in Beauty and Plumbing – 2010/2011 Streetworks (HAUC) – August 2010 Nabs for :  Int 1/Int 2/Higher Computing – NOW  Higher Information Systems – 2010/11  Higher Maths – 2010/11

Assessment for the PFA – Phase 1  Summative Assessment –Itembank rules-based approach –All questions 4 option MCQ –Principles of Money – 25 Q’s in 5 sections –Money Management – 20 Q’s in 4 sections –60% passmark with immediate result and feedback

Assessment for the PFA  Principles of Money –Available now –Max of 2 versions of a paper Nab - tbc  Money Management –Available w/c 28 October –Max of 2 versions of a paper Nab - tbc

Assessment for the PFA – Phase 2  Summative Assessment –New question items added to bank using other question types MRQ, re-order, matching, gapfill, drag’n’drop –No paper equivalent –Updated assessment in use from January 2011

Assessment for the PFA – Phase 2  Formative Assessment –New question items with contextualized learner feedback –Using a range of different question types MCQ, MRQ, re-order, matching, gapfill, drag’n’drop –To support learners in using the Solar system and the different question types –Available through OpenAssess –Released January 2011

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