Introducing Unit Specifications and Unit Assessment Support Packs

Introducing Unit Specifications and Unit Assessment Support Packs

Art & Design National 3, 4 & 5

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

Art & Design: Unit StructureArt & Design: Unit Structure

National 3 National 4 National 5

Expressive Activity Expressive Activity Expressive Activity

Design Activity Design Activity Design Activity

Added Value: Portfolio &

Practical Assignment Question Paper

Key points: Art & Design UnitsKey points: Art & Design Units

standards remain the same feature the best approaches of the current Art &

Design Units have a hierarchical Unit structure that provide

progression from National 3 to Higher The Units offer opportunities for skills, knowledge

and understanding to be developed and integrated throughout the Course

Added Value is assessed through a practical activity at National 4 and a portfolio and a question paper at National 5 and Higher.

Unit SpecificationsUnit SpecificationsUnit Expressive Activity (National 5)

Outcome 1 Analyse the factors influencing artists and art practice by:

1.1 Describing how artists use a range of art materials, techniques and/or technology in their work.

Assessment 1.2 Describing the impact of artists’

Standards creative choices in a range of artists’ work.

1.3 Analysing the impact of social and cultural influences on selected artists and their practice.

Unit SpecificationsUnit SpecificationsUnit Expressive Activity (National 5)

Outcome 2 Produce creative development ideas for expressive artwork by:

2.1 Selecting suitable subject matter for an expressive activity

2.2 Producing analytical drawings, studies and investigative research to represent specific

Assessment features of the subjects

Standards 2.3 Using a selection of art materials, techniques and/or technology expressively

2.4 Developing selected visual elements and refining compositional ideas creatively in 2D and/or 3D

2.5 Using problem solving and evaluation skills when developing ideas for expressive artwork

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 will be a combination of practical, written oral and/or recorded evidence. Evidence may also be presented for individual Outcomes or it may be gathered for the Unit as a whole (holistic assessment).

Unit SpecificationsUnit Specifications

For this Unit learners will be required to provide evidence of: analysing the things that have influenced and inspired artists and their work using descriptive art vocabulary when describing their own work and the work of other artists producing expressive drawings, studies and investigative research showing understanding of the subject matter using a variety of art materials, techniques and/or technology creatively for expressive effect in their work creative development of compositional ideas and art work in response to stimuli

Unit Assessment Support Packages - purposeUnit 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

Art & Design UASPsArt & Design UASPs

There are three packages of Unit Assessment Support for each Course. For Art & Design these are:

Unit-by-Unit approach: Design and

Unit-by-Unit approach: Expressive - the Unit Assessment Support is for each Unit in a Course. Normally it will cover all of the Outcomes and Assessment Standards.

Portfolio approach – this supports a portfolio approach to assessment by providing information on judging evidence for assessment normally covering all Outcomes and Assessment Standards for all the Units in a Course.

Assessment Package 1Assessment Package 1

• Key issues for the subject - integration of art and design knowledge and

practical art and design skills

- creative experimentation and development of ideas

- explicit focus on reflection (creative process)

- making assessment judgements - standards are comparable to existing qualifications

- reasonable assistance/support – given stimuli (N3/N4)/supported reflection

National 4 Added Value UnitNational 4 Added Value Unit

Makes the Course more than the sum of its parts Builds on current Course assessment and Group

Award approaches Defined as breadth, challenge and/or application

as outlined in Building the Curriculum 5 May involve accumulation, assimilation,

integration and/or application of skills, knowledge and understanding

Controlled assessment –setting conducting and marking

N4 AV Unit: Practical ActivityN4 AV Unit: Practical Activity

A practical activity in which the learner will produce a piece of expressive art and a design idea

– set by centres within SQA guidelines – conducted under some supervision and control – evidence will be internally marked by centre

staff in line with SQA guidelines. – all assessment subject to quality assurance by

SQA.

N5 Internal Assessment of Course ComponentsN5 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 External Course AssessmentN5 External Course Assessment

Controlled assessment of Question Paper and Portfolio

The portfolio is: set by centres within SQA guidelines conducted under some supervision and control evidence will be submitted to SQA for external marking. all marking will be conducted 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.