GCSE ASSESSMENT OBJECTIVES
Assessment objectives (AOs) are set by Ofqual and are the same across all GCSE Art and Design specifications and all exam boards. The exams and non-exam assessment will measure how students have achieved the following assessment objectives.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
The assessment criteria must be applied to the assessment of students’ work for both components. The assessment objectives are equally weighted in each case. The Assessment criteria grid indicates the levels of attainment that would be expected for the award of marks in the ranges shown. Each component is marked out of a total of 96 marks. As the assessment objectives are equally weighted in each component, there is a maximum of 24 marks for each of the assessment objectives. The marks, out of 24, for each assessment objective must be added together to produce the total mark out of 96. You are required to provide a mark for each of the assessment objectives separately in accordance with the assessment criteria and a mark out of 96 must be provided for each component. The assessment grid must be used to identify the student’s level of performance in relation to each of the assessment objectives. Six mark band descriptors are provided, with a range of marks for each of the four assessment objectives. A Candidate record form (CRF) must be completed for each student for each component. When completing each form the teacher should decide which mark band best describes the student’s performance for each assessment objective, then circle the appropriate mark. These marks should then be transferred to the ‘mark awarded’ row and added together. This total should be entered in the ‘total mark box’ to the right of the grid. Four marks are available for each mark band in each assessment objective. The lower mark indicates that the student has just met the requirement described in that particular band, the next mark indicates that evidence is adequate, the next that evidence is clear and the higher mark indicates that evidence is convincing but that the student has not quite met the requirements set out in the next band. ASSESSING COMPONENTS 1 AND 2 For Component 1, the portfolio submission must be assessed as a whole, using the assessment grid to select which of the six mark band descriptors for each objective best describes the student’s overall performance. The same process is met for Component 2, preparatory studies and the work undertaken in the supervised time, must be assessed together when arriving at an overall mark.
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A LEVEL ASSESSMENT OBJECTIVES
There is synoptic assessment in both components of the A-level that provide stretch and challenge opportunities for students as follows: In Component 1, students develop work based on an idea, issue, concept or theme leading to a finished outcome or a series of related finished outcomes. Practical elements should make connections with some aspect of contemporary or past practice of artist(s), designer(s), photographers or craftspeople and include written work of no less than 1000 and no more than 3000 words which supports the practical work. In Component 2, students respond to a stimulus, provided by AQA, to produce work which provides evidence of their ability to work independently within specified time constraints, developing a personal and meaningful response which addresses all the assessment objectives and leads to a finished outcome or a series of related finished outcomes. Assessment objectives (AOs) are set by Ofqual and are the same across all AS and A-level Art and Design specifications and all exam boards. The assessments will measure how students have achieved the following assessment objectives:
The assessment criteria must be applied to the assessment of students’ work for all components. The assessment objectives are equally weighted in each of the components. The Assessment criteria grid indicates the levels of response which would be expected for the award of marks in the ranges shown. It should be noted that the ranges have been drawn up to assist teachers in identifying individual levels of response and do not, in themselves, constitute grade descriptions.
Each component is marked out of a total of 96 marks. As the assessment objectives are equally weighted in each of the components, there is a maximum of 24 marks for each of the assessment objectives. The marks, out of 24, for each assessment objective must be added together to produce the total mark out of 96. You are required to provide a mark for each of the assessment objectives separately in accordance with the assessment criteria and a total mark out of 96 must be provided for each component. The assessment grid must be used to identify the student’s level of performance in relation to each of the assessment objectives. Six mark band descriptors are provided, with a range of marks for each of the four assessment objectives. A Candidate record form must be completed for each student for each component. When completing the Candidate record form the teacher should decide which mark band descriptor best describes the student’s performance for each assessment objective, then circle the appropriate mark. These marks should be transferred to the ‘mark awarded’ row and added together. This total should be entered in the ‘total mark’ box to the right of the grid. Four marks are available for each mark band in each assessment objective. The lower mark indicates that the student has just met the requirements described in that particular band, the next mark indicates that evidence is adequate, the next that evidence is clear and the higher mark indicates that evidence is convincing but that the student has just failed to meet the requirements set out in the next band. ASSESSING THE PERSONAL INVESTIGATION This is a practical component supported by written material. The practical work and written material must be assessed as an integrated whole. The practical work and the written material must be assessed together using the assessment grid to select which of the six mark band descriptors for each assessment objective best describes the student’s overall performance. The written material and practical work must each show evidence of meeting all four assessment objectives. Once the mark band has been selected the mark qualifiers ‘just’, ‘adequately’, ‘clearly’ or ‘convincingly’ should be applied to determine the specific mark within the band. |