New Advanced Higher
Subject Implementation Events
Design and Manufacture:
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
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Valid from August 2015
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Complements and supports learning and teaching
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Assess competence against Unit Outcomes and Assessment
Standards
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Designed to encourage professional judgement
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Provide broad-based tasks – allow assessors to choose
appropriate context and forms of evidence
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Show range of approaches to generating assessment evidence
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Give information on the type of evidence which could be gathered
Unit Assessment Support at
Advanced Higher – Approaches
Package 1 (Published October 2014)
• Portfolio approach – which uses naturally occurring
evidence
Package 2 (Published February 2015)
• Unit by Unit approach – discrete assessment tasks
for each Unit
Package 3 (Published April 2015)
• Combined approach – Product Development Unit
articulation with project
Assessment Support Package 1
• Portfolio approach
• Covers all three units – Product Analysis,
Evolution, and Development
• Makes use of naturally occurring evidence
gathered though learning and teaching
• Describes how the judgments should be made
for each assessment standard
• Provides commentary on possible approaches
and activities which can be used
• Gives information on re-assessment
Unit Assessment Support Package 2
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Separate support package for each of the units
Short focussed tasks
Contexts can be changed as required
Assessment judgements are the same as
portfolio
• Commentary on evidence relates to the task(s)
provided
• Re-assessment is by Assessment Standard not
by task
Unit Assessment Support Package 3
• Using the Product Development Unit to articulate
with elements of the Course project
CfE Units versus current Units
Current
CfE
Product Design Analysis
Product Analysis
Product Development
Product Development
Design Case Study
Product Evolution
Units – Product Analysis
Outcomes
CfE
 Analyse performance, production and impact
Current
 Analyse performance and production
Units – Product Development
Outcomes
CfE
 Identify and respond to a design opportunity
 Create and evaluate a design proposal
Current
 Identify a development opportunity…
 Produce a design solution…
 Produce outline proposals for commercial
manufacture…
CfE
Units – Product Evolution
Outcomes
 Research factors that have influenced the design
and manufacture of a selected commercial product
 Investigate the impact of new and emerging
technologies on the design and manufacture of a
selected commercial product
Current
 Investigate the development of design in a
commercial product
 Evaluate the factors which may influence the future
development of the product
Workshop 1
Unit Assessment
Workshop Aims
 To understand the assessment and evidence requirements of Unit
Assessment
Using
the materials provided, in small groups of 2 To consider a range of ways of generating evidence for the Unit
3, Assessment
discuss: Support provided
 Identify subject-specific topics for discussion
Using the materials provided, in small groups of 2-3, discuss:
 Consider the three unit support packs
 Discuss the evidence requirements of each pack
 Discuss the ways in which your current practice will support the
generating of evidence for these new units
– What do you currently do that you can continue to do
– What you need to change/reconsider – if anything
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