Qualifications Update:
National 5
Dance
Developing qualifications - drivers
• Progression – provide progression from National 5 to
Higher
• 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 - Coursework assessment at National 5
• Robust and credible – current high standards in
qualifications will be maintained
Key points
• encourages learners to be inspired and challenged when
developing technical dance skills, performing, creating and
appreciating dance
• uses theoretical knowledge to inform practice and develop
understanding of a range of dance techniques and
choreographic skills
• develops an appreciation of a range of theatre arts and dance
practice
• Units offer opportunities for skills to be developed and
integrated throughout the Course
• has a hierarchical Unit structure that provides progression from
National 5 to Higher
• has added value assessments that provide personalisation and
choice and a performance at National 5 and Higher
Course Structure
National 5
Dance: Technical Skills Unit (60 hours)
Dance: Choreography Unit (60 hours)
Component 1: Performance : 35 marks
Component 2 : Practical Activity : Choreography : 65 marks
New Quality Assurance arrangements
•
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
•
Intense verification in the first 3 years, then an intelligence
led approach will be adopted
•
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
N5 Unit Assessment Support (Package 1)
Feb 13
N5 Unit Assessment Support (Package 2)
Apr 13
N5 Unit Assessment Support (Package 3)
Apr 13
N5 Specimen Coursework
Dance
Unit Assessment
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 – naturally occurring
evidence
Package 3
• Combined approach – groups Outcomes and
Assessment Standards from different Units
Assessment Package 1
Technical Skills
- Study one selected dance style
- Demonstrate technical skills of 2 contrasting dance
styles
- Evaluate technical skills
Assessment Package 1
Choreography
- Demonstrate knowledge of choreographic
principles
- Examine the use of theatre arts and choreographic
principles in a professional dance
- Choreograph a dance for 2
Assessment Package 1
Workshop Tasks
Dance
Added Value Assessment
National 5 Course Assessment
Adding Value
• Each Course at National 4 and above includes
assessment of Added Value
• 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
• May involve accumulation, assimilation, integration
and/or application of skills, knowledge and
understanding
• Uses 7 defined assessment methods (there 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, Centre-led
• Subject-specific decisions, but mostly SQA-led activity in
initial years
National 5 Dance
Course Assessment
Component 1: Performance
Component 2: Practical Activity
National 5 Dance
Course Assessment
Component 1: Performance
- 35 marks
- 1.5 to 2 minutes
- Tutor-choreographed technical solo
- Visiting assessor
- Assessment task published by 31 March 2013
National 5 Dance
Course Assessment
Performance
Application of skills to technique
20 marks:
5 Technical execution and use of
turnout/parallel as appropriate to genre
5 Centring, balance, alignment and posture
5 Stamina, strength and flexibility
5 Spatial awareness and accurate recreation of
choreography
National 5 Dance
Course Assessment
Performance
Application of skills to performance
15 marks:
5 Timing and musicality
5 Quality and dynamics
5 Self-expression, sense of performance,
concentration and focus
National 5 Dance
Course Assessment
Component 2: Practical Activity
- 65 marks
- Section 1 – Choreography (35 marks)
- Section 2 – Choreography Review (30 marks)
- Conducted under some supervision and control
- Visiting assessor
- Assessment task published by 31 March 2013
National 5 Dance
Course Assessment
Section 1 – Choreography
1.5 to 2 minutes
35 marks:
8 Use of theme or stimulus to create movement
6 Use of choreographic structures
10 Use of choreographic devices
8 Use of space
3 Use of music/sound
National 5 Dance
Course Assessment
Section 2 – Choreography Review
30 marks:
6 Explain movement ideas generated from
research
18 Justify use of particular structures, devices,
space and music/sound
6 Describe strengths and areas for development
Added Value
Workshop Tasks