Qualifications Update: Latin Qualifications Update: Latin

Key messages Units Outcomes are skills-based and provide flexibility and choice through choice of texts and authors Builds knowledge and understanding and development of skills progressively from National 5 Course is assessed by 2 Question papers: Translating, and Literary Appreciation Prescribed texts have been refreshed

2 Units: Translating, Literary Appreciation The language and style of the questions in Literary Appreciation has been revised (Unit Assessment Support Packs and Course Assessment) Question on aspects of Roman culture: Literary Appreciation Unit and Course Assessment Marking Instructions for translating in Course Assessment 2, 1, 0 – same as National 5 Key messages

Catullus: Poems (Selections in Latin and in English) Ovid: “Pyramus and Thisbe” and “Baucis and Philemon” (selections from Metamorphoses 4 and 8) Virgil: “The story of Dido” Aeneid (Selections from Books 1, 4 and 6) Pliny: Letters “The eruption of Vesuvius” (Selections from Book 6, letters 16 and 20) Cicero: "The Governorship of Verres in Sicily" (selections from In Verrem V) Refreshed Prescribed Texts for Literary Appreciation

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

Latin Unit Assessment at 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 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

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

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 by theme and by author Package 3 Unit by Unit approach – discrete assessment tasks for each Unit

Assessment Support Package Example Assessment Support Package 1 for Higher Latin: Unit by Unit for each of Translating and Literary Appreciation Units Translating Package 1 covers the Outcome and all Assessment Standards for the Unit (two translating tasks – Alexander’s Horse and Hannibal) Literary Appreciation Package 1 covers the Outcome and all Assessment Standards for the Unit (Catullus, Ovid and Virgil exemplified – candidates should choose and complete 2 of the 3 tasks successfully to pass the Unit) Refreshed approach to show “sufficiency of evidence” in both Units Translating passages can be any appropriate author

Latin Higher Course Assessment

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 Latin there is a Question Paper for Translating and a Question Paper for Literary Appreciation.

Higher – Higher – Question Paper: Translating Set and marked by SQA, and conducted in centres under conditions specified for external examinations by SQA May be any appropriate prose author 40 marks (20 blocks) 1 hour (100 – 120 words) 2 marks for accurate or near accurate translation of the block and 1 mark for translation of the essential idea No scaling of marks

Higher – Higher – Question Paper: Literary Appreciation Set and marked by SQA, and conducted in centres under conditions specified for external examinations by SQA 60 marks (30 marks for each of two authors) 2 hours Questions on understanding, analysis and evaluation Extended response question worth 8 marks Specific question on understanding of Roman culture reflected in the text

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)