Teaching Heritage - Assessment

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	Create a community display that shows changes in life and work in your street/community over time. Write a proposal — to go to school administration — for maintaining certain elements of the school environment that you consider important to the story of your locality. Your proposal might include features such as pathways, gardens, monuments, trees, entrances to the school.

Three forms of assessment are identified in the History and Geography Stages 4–5 syllabuses:

diagnostic – before the commencement of a teaching/learning program; formative during the program; and summative– at the end of the program.

Targeted outcomes for the unit Forming a nation – starting a new century are the starting point for designing assessment tasks. The three sections in this unit aim to move towards more complex study issues – that is, the beginning study area is generally less demanding than the third. Teaching and learning activities, including assessment activities, reflect this progression.

Suggested assessment activities broadly fall into the following types:

Firstly, students plan a research activity based on their analysis of a variety of sources – they are assessed on the ideas they contribute to the development of the topic. Secondly, the research processes utilised by students are assessed. Thirdly, students are assessed on the presentation and communication of their research findings, including recognition of the changing values in society and the way values and attitudes impact on current issues in Australian society.

Some assessment activities – given under the targeted outcomes for this unit – follow.


	To read more about assessment, see the History and Geography syllabus sections on Assessment, including the Principles of Effective Assessment.

Skills

S1 Uses historical terms and concepts in appropriate contexts to answer historical questions with some argument

S2 Locates, selects and organises historical information from a number of different sources to address complex historical problems and issues

S3 Selects and uses appropriate written, oral and graphic forms to communicate effectively about the past for different audiences, with clear purpose

Knowledge and Understanding

S1 Explains political events and evaluates their impact on civic life in Australia

S2 Describes major features of social and cultural life at different times in Australia’s history

S3 Recounts some major events in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal relations

Values and Attitudes

S1 Develops understanding of the nature of various democratic institutions

S2 Develops an appreciation of environments and a sense of responsibility for their future

S3 Develops appreciation of the cultural, linguistic and spiritual heritages of themselves and others