Fashion and Textile Technology Unit Assessment National 3 to National 5

Unit assessment Flexible and open Assessment Standards and Evidence Requirements in Units Greater range of techniques and methodologies for assessment – encouraged through Unit assessment support packages 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 packages – purpose Assessment support packages will be provided which you can use to: Assess your candidates Adapt for your own assessment programmes Help you develop your own assessments

Unit Assessment Support packages – key features Valid from August 2013 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 and how this is to be judged against Assessment Standards

Unit assessment support packages - 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

Assessment Package 1 Unit by Unit approach Assessment exemplified with candidate workbook and observation checklist Evidence can also be provided in any other suitable format e.g. mood board, annotated diagram, poster, report, presentation etc. Advice on how to make assessment judgements Suggested recording documentation Appendix with task which can be given to candidates

Amendments to Outcomes and Assessment Standards Differentiation needed to be clarified: between SCQF levels between Units Provides clearer progression to Higher

Differentiation between levels Fashion/textile items defined as: Based on: Number of component parts: at least 2/3/4/4 Level/amount of construction techniques: at least 3/5/8/8 ‘Standard of quality’

Differentiation between Units Fashion/Textile Item Development New AS 1.1 – Identify / Describe / Explain a fashion/textile trend Develop a solution based on the trend in response to a brief; produce a plan Textile Technologies Use of a pattern (moved from FTID Unit) Use a specified number of construction techniques Fashion and Textile Choices: New AS Carry out a straightforward / detailed investigation into factors affecting fashion/textile choice for a chosen group of consumers