2. New Advanced Higher Subject Implementation Events Physical Education: Unit Assessment at Advanced Higher

3. 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

4. Unit Assessment Support Purpose As at Higher, Advanced 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

5. Key messages from Verification 2013-14 Use valid and reliable assessments  There were good examples of Centre-devised questions  If modifying SQA-produced UASPs, care should be taken to ensure that if the terminology of the Assessment Standard is changed, the meaning remains clear  When Centres have designed workbooks for bi-level use, care should be taken not to disadvantage the lower-level candidates by asking them to go beyond the Assessment Standard for that level

6. Key messages from Verification 2013-14 Making assessment judgements  Centres are accurately assessing Performance Skills across all levels  Centres should ensure that candidates give the correct depth of answer to meet the Assessment Standard eg some candidates had ‘described’ but not ‘explained’  Centres should clearly indicate on a candidate’s written work where the assessment judgement has been made  There is evidence of good practice in internal verification for Performance Skills

7. Key messages from Verification 2013-14 Unit Assessment complementing learning and teaching  There is evidence of good feedback to candidates from staff  There is evidence of high quality of candidate work  There is evidence of a range of methods of internal verification

8. Key messages from Verification 2013-14 All Key Messages from Verification are available on the SQA website:  www.sqa.org.uk www.sqa.org.uk  Qualifications  Browse new NQ subjects  Physical Education  View and download all Physical Education documents  Verification  Physical Education Verification Key Messages

9. 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

10. Unit Assessment Support at Advanced Higher – Approaches Package 1: Unit by Unit approach Provide discrete assessment tasks for each Unit (October 2014) Package 2: Portfolio approach Provides examples of learning activities which could generate naturally occurring evidence (February 2015) Package 3: Combined approach Groups together all Outcomes and Assessment Standards from both Units in one assessment task (April 2015)

11. Assessment Support Package Example Unit by Unit and Combined approaches Each Unit Assessment Support Pack includes details of:  Overview of Assessment  Assessment Conditions  Evidence requirements  Advice on making assessment judgements – Judging Evidence Table  Column 1: Outcome  Column 2: Assessment Standard  Column 3: Making Assessment Judgements  Column 4: Assessment for Candidates commentary on assessment judgements  Reassessment arrangements  Recording documentation  Appendix 1: The Candidate Task

12. 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

13. Workshop 1 Unit Assessment Using the materials provided, in small groups of 2- 3, discuss:  Identify subject-specific topics for discussion Workshop Groups Centres currently:  delivering Advanced Higher and the CfE Higher  delivering Advanced Higher and the current Higher  planning to deliver Advanced Higher

14. Workshop 1 Unit Assessment Using the materials provided, in small groups of 2- 3, discuss:  Identify subject-specific topics for discussion Workshop task Using the materials provided, in groups of 2-3: From your current status, identify the development strategy you will need to put in place to implement the requirements of Advanced Higher. You may wish to consider: Development of knowledge and understanding Skills development Strategy for implementing Unit and Course assessments

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