New Advanced Higher Subject Implementation Events Drama:

Unit Assessment at Advanced 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 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

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

Unit Assessment Support at Advanced Higher – 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

Unit Assessment Support at Advanced Higher

Drama Skills Outcome 1 The learner will:1Apply a range of complex drama skills.

1.1 Exploring ideas for a drama in response to a variety of methodologies, theatre practices and texts of one or more key practitioners1.2 Developing ideas based on research informed by one or more key practitioners

Outcome 2 The learner will:•Contribute creatively to the drama process by:

2. Planning, researching and devising drama informed by practices and methodologies of one or more theatre practitioners.2.2 Applying complex drama skills within a presentation2.3 Evaluating their drama

Unit Assessment Support at Advanced Higher

Drama: Production SkillsOutcome 1 The learner will:1 Explore a range of complex production skills informed by theories and practices of one or more practitioners by:1.1 Researching the theories and practice of one or more key practitioners.1.2 Developing complex production skills, informed by research of one or more practitioners1.3 Applying selected production skills informed by research of one or more practitionersOutcome 2 The learner will:2 Evaluate complex production skills by:2.1 Analysing the use of complex production skills in a current performance2.2 Analysing aspects of a performance that reflect or contrast with the theories, methodologies and practices of one or more key practitioners

Workshop 1Unit 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

Using the materials provided, in groups, discuss:

Learning and Teaching – how will you set it up? what activities would you use?

Assessment Evidence – what does the candidate need to do?

How will they present the evidence? 

Unit Assessment SupportPORTFOLIO UNIT ASSESSMENT

NATURALLY OCCURRING EVIDENCE FOR

DRAMA SKILLS AND DRAMA: PRODUCTION SKILLS

FORMAT: HOW WILL YOU PRESENT THE EVIDENCE?

ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE

LEARNING AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES

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