Qualifications Update:
Latin
Developing qualifications - drivers
• Progression – provide progression from Es & Os and maximise
continuity between levels
• More open and flexible requirements – fewer, broader
outcomes, more focus on skills
• Assessment which supports learning - open evidence
requirements – choice of assessment approaches –
opportunities for combined assessment
• Refreshed and relevant contexts for learning, providing
challenge and enjoyment
• Personalisation and Choice – in content/contexts for Units Added Value Unit at National 4 – coursework assessment at
National 5
• Robust and credible – current high standards in qualifications
will be maintained
Relationship between CfE and SCQF Levels
Continues to 12
CfE
Levels
2
1
early
years
4
3
≈
4
3
SCQF
Levels
2
1
Key points
Combines best aspects of current Standard Grade and
Intermediate Latin:
• An added value assessment providing personalisation
and choice in an Assignment at National 4
• Refreshed Prescribed Texts for Literary Appreciation at
National 5 (The Poems of Catullus, Ovid Metamorphoses
VIII, Virgil Aeneid II, Pliny Letters, Cicero In Verrem IV) and
flexibility in texts used at National 3 and National 4
• Question on aspects of Roman culture: Literary
Appreciation Unit and Course Assessment
• New Marking Instructions for translating in Course
Assessment at National 5: 2, 1, 0.
Unit Structure
National 3
National 4
National 5
Latin: Translating
Latin: Translating
Latin: Translating
Latin: Literary
Appreciation
Latin: Literary
Appreciation
Latin: Literary
Appreciation
Latin: Assignment
New Quality Assurance arrangements
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Will cover new National 1 to National 5 from 2013/14
•
New arrangements will promote shared understanding of
national standards through a collaborative and partnership
approach
•
New ‘Nominee’ role - provides a pool of nationally trained
experts
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Intense verification in the first 3 years, then an intelligence
led approach will be adopted
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Verification in Nov/Dec, Feb and Apr/May - allows for early
identification of issues and support/guidance to be given
Assessment Support Schedule 2012/13
Oct 12 to Mar 13
N3 to N5 Unit Assessment Support (Package 1)
Feb 13
N3 to N5 Unit Assessment Support (Package 2)
Feb 13
N5 Specimen Question Paper
Apr 13
N3 to N5 Unit Assessment Support (Package 3)
Apr 13
N5 Specimen Coursework
Apr 13
N4 Added Value Assessment Support
Latin
Unit Assessment
National 3 to National 5
Unit assessment
• Flexible and open Assessment Standards and Evidence
Requirements in Units
• Greater range of techniques and methodologies for assessment –
encouraged through Unit assessment support packages
• 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
packages – purpose
Assessment support packages 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
packages – 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
Unit assessment support
packages - approaches
Package 1
• Unit by Unit approach – discrete assessment tasks
for each Unit
Package 2
• Portfolio approach – groups Outcomes and
Assessment Standards from different Units – linking
Translating and Literary Appreciation by theme and by
author
Package 3
• Unit by Unit approach – discrete assessment tasks
for each Unit
Assessment Package 1
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•
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Unit by Unit Approach
Latin: Translating - 2 assessments per level
Latin: Literary Appreciation - 2 assessments per level
using two authors (3 at National 5)
Each package covers Outcome, Assessment
Standards and Evidence requirements for either
Translating or Literary Appreciation
Key points: making assessment judgements using criteria, evidence
may be oral or written, culture question in Literary Appreciation,
flexibility of choice with texts at National 3 and National 4, prescribed
texts refreshed at National 5)
Unit Assessment Support
National 3
National 4
National 5
Latin: Translating
2 translations
Exemplars:
Greek Hero Odysseus
The Eruption of Vesuvius
Latin: Translating
2 translations
Exemplars:
Philemon and Baucis
Favourite Grandson upset
by his grandmother’s
death
Latin: Translating
2 translations
Exemplars:
Murder at the Inn
A Dream Cure for Poison
Latin: Literary
Appreciation:
Catullus Poems
Pliny Letters
Latin: Literary
Appreciation:
Pliny Letters
Ovid Metamorphoses
VIII
Latin: Literary
Appreciation:
Catullus Poems
Cicero in Verrem IV
Virgil Aeneid II
Latin
Added Value Assessments:
- National 5 Course Assessment
- National 4 Added Value Unit
Adding Value – National 4,
National 5
• Each Course at National 4 and National 5
includes assessment of Added Value
• For National 4, the added value is in an
Added Value Unit - not graded
• For National 5, the added value is in the
Course Assessment - graded A - D (as at
present)
Added Value
• 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
• Uses 7 defined assessment methods (there are usually
two of these)
Controlled Assessment
• Where the assessment method is not a question paper,
SQA has introduced the concept of controlled assessment
to ensure fairness and reliability
• 3 stages of assessment: Setting, Conducting, Marking the
assessment
• Each will have a defined level of control: SQA-led activity,
Shared responsibility between SQA and Centres, Centreled
• Subject-specific decisions, but mostly SQA-led activity in
initial years
National 5 – Latin
Course Assessment
• Question Paper Latin: Translating 50% 30 marks
• Question Paper Latin : Literary Appreciation 50% 30
marks
• Externally marked
• Samples skills, knowledge and understanding from
the Course Specification and Course Assessment
Specification
• Includes accidence and syntax and refreshed
prescribed texts
• Draws on style of questions in Standard Grade and
Intermediate 2
National 5 – Translating
• 1 hour paper
• Detailed unseen Latin prose text
• 15 blocks worth 2 marks each for
accurate/near accurate translation; 1 mark for
essential idea
• Marking now 2, 1, 0 basis
• No scaling
National 5 – Literary Appreciation
• 1 hour paper
• Analysis and Evaluation of refreshed prescribed
texts – available on SQA website and provided
with the Question Paper separately
• Choice of two authors from five
• Short answer, restricted and extended response
questions
• One question on an aspect of Roman culture
related to the text
National 5 – Refreshed Texts
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The Poems of Catullus
Ovid Metamorphoses VIII
Virgil Aeneid II
Pliny Letters
Cicero in Verrem IV
National 4 Added Value Unit
Latin: Assignment
• Allows demonstration of challenge and
application
• Assesses skills in translating; selecting
relevant information about aspects of
Roman culture; presenting findings in
English and responding to questions
• Internally marked