New Advanced Higher Subject Implementation Events Drama: Unit Assessment at Advanced Higher

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

Unit Assessment Support Purpose As at Higher, 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 your own assessments

Unit Assessment Support at Advanced Higher – Key Features Valid from August 2015 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

Unit Assessment Support at Advanced Higher – Approaches Package 1 Unit by Unit approach – discrete assessment tasks for each Unit Package 2 Portfolio approach – naturally occurring evidence Package 3 Combined approach – groups Outcomes and Assessment Standards from different Units

Unit Assessment Support at Advanced Higher Drama Skills Outcome 1 The learner will: 1Apply a range of complex drama skills. 1.1 Exploring ideas for a drama in response to a variety of methodologies, theatre practices and texts of one or more key practitioners 1.2 Developing ideas based on research informed by one or more key practitioners Outcome 2 The learner will: 2Contribute creatively to the drama process by: 2. Planning, researching and devising drama informed by practices and methodologies of one or more theatre practitioners. 2.2 Applying complex drama skills within a presentation 2.3 Evaluating their drama

Unit Assessment Support at Advanced Higher Drama: Production Skills Outcome 1 The learner will: 1 Explore a range of complex production skills informed by theories and practices of one or more practitioners by: 1.1 Researching the theories and practice of one or more key practitioners. 1.2 Developing complex production skills, informed by research of one or more practitioners 1.3 Applying selected production skills informed by research of one or more practitioners Outcome 2 The learner will: 2 Evaluate complex production skills by: 2.1 Analysing the use of complex production skills in a current performance 2.2 Analysing aspects of a performance that reflect or contrast with the theories, methodologies and practices of one or more key practitioners

Workshop 1 Unit Assessment Using the materials provided, in small groups of 2- 3, discuss:  Identify subject-specific topics for discussion Workshop Aims  To understand the assessment and evidence requirements of Unit Assessment  To consider a range of ways of generating evidence for the Unit Assessment Support provided Using the materials provided, in groups, discuss: Learning and Teaching – how will you set it up? what activities would you use? Assessment Evidence – what does the candidate need to do? How will they present the evidence?

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