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Introducing Unit Specifications and Unit Assessment Support Packs
Introducing Unit Specifications and Unit Assessment Support Packs
National 5 and Higher
Unit AssessmentUnit Assessment
Assessments can be designed to provide evidence across more than one Unit or Outcome – combined assessments
Flexible and open Evidence Requirements in Units Greater range of techniques and methodologies for
assessment – encouraged through Unit assessment support packages
More opportunities to gather naturally occurring evidence – assessment as part of learning and teaching
Key points:Key points:
standards remain the same feature updated approaches of two of the current
Units have a hierarchical Unit structure that provide
progression from National 5 to Higher contexts of contemporary social issues and culture
and identity has personalisation and choice in the Social Issues
and Culture and Identity units
Unit SpecificationsUnit Specifications
Evidence Requirements for this Unit:Assessors should use their professional judgement, subject knowledge and experience, and understanding of their learners, to determine the most appropriate ways to generate evidence and the conditions and contexts in which they are used. Evidence should be gathered in combination with other Outcomes where possible, either from this Unit or in combination with the Outcomes from the other two Units. Evidence may also be gathered for individual Outcomes where appropriate.
Unit Assessment Support Packages - purpose
Unit Assessment Support Packages - purpose
UASPs can be used to:
•Assess your candidates
•Adapt for your own assessment programmes
•Help you develop your own assessments
UASPs – key featuresUASPs – 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
Sociology UASPsSociology UASPs
Package 1 Unit by Unit approach - N5 and Higher
Package 2 Portfolio - N5 and Higher
Package 3 Combined across Units - N5 and Higher
PostersPosters
N5 Internal Assessment of Course Components
N5 Internal Assessment of Course Components
Controlled assessment is SQA’s approach to developing assessments (setting), the conditions of assessment (conducting), and marking assessments (marking).
SQA is introducing controlled assessment for non-question paper components of the Added Value Unit and new National Courses at National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher.
N5 AssignmentN5 Assignment
Controlled assessment
This assignment is:
set by centres within SQA guidelines conducted under a high degree of supervision and control Evidence will be externally marked by SQA. Marking will be quality assured by SQA.
Moving onMoving on
Workshop 1 and 2 will give you the opportunity to look at the Unit Specifications and Unit Assessment Support Packages in detail.
Unit StructureUnit Structure
National 5 Higher
Culture and Identity Culture and Identity
Human Society Human Society
Social Issues Social Issues
‘As you know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know’.
Donald Rumsfeld – 12/2/02 US Defence Secretary and lesser known philosopher…
Known Knowns
Unit Specifications: Human Society
Unit Specifications: Human Society
Outcome 1 Explain the sociological approach to understanding society by:
1.1 Distinguishing between common-sense and sociological explanations of social behaviour
1.2 Describing basic features and one advantage and one disadvantage of two different research methods than tend to generate quantitative data
1.3 Describing basic features and one advantage and one disadvantage of two different research methods than tend to generate qualitative data
1.4 Selecting research methods favoured by sociologists that adopt structural and action perspectives
Unit Specifications: Human Society
Unit Specifications: Human Society
Outcome 2
Explain relationships between individuals, groups and institutions by:
2.1 Explaining the structural perspective, using the concept of structure
2.2 Explaining the action perspective, using the concept of social action
2.3 Describing two differences between structural and action perspectives
Known Unknowns
Unit Specifications: Social Issues
Unit Specifications: Social Issues
Outcome 1 Explain social issues by:
1.1 Describing a contemporary social issue with reference to evidence from different sources
1.2 Explaining the social issue using sociological theories, one of which takes a structural perspective
1.3 Describing one similarity and two differences in how the theories explain the chosen social issue
Unit Specifications: Social Issues
Unit Specifications: Social Issues
Outcome 2
Apply research evidence to gain a sociological understanding of social issues by:
2.1 Explaining the role of research evidence in sociology
2.2 Interpreting research evidence and using the interpretation to support sociological explanations of a contemporary social issue
Social IssuesSocial Issues
Social Inequality
Differential Educational Achievement
These units are great for discussing good and bad sources
These units are great for discussing good and bad sources
Finding Sources http://youtu.be/VGy-FfOC1ms
Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science: TED TALKS http://youtu.be/e26948i3hKI
Unknown
Unknowns
Unit Specifications: Culture and IdentityUnit Specifications: Culture and Identity
Outcome 1 Explain culture and identity by:
1.1 Describing the concepts of culture, sub-culture, identity and diversity
1.2 Explaining the process of socialisation
1.3 Using evidence form a range of sources to investigate the relationship between socialisation and identity
1.4 Giving an explanation of culture and identity that reflects awareness of diversity
Key pointsKey points
Sub-cultures, British culture or cross cultures
Identity and Primary and
Secondary socialisation
Diversity
Three sources
Ideas for sub-cultures: EMO’sIdeas for sub-cultures: EMO’s
Travelling peopleTravelling people
GothsGoths
NEDsNEDs
ToffsToffs
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