Qualifications Update:
Latin
Key messages
• Units Outcomes are skills-based and provide flexibility
and choice through choice of texts and authors
• Builds knowledge and understanding and development of
skills progressively from National 5
• Course is assessed by 2 Question papers: Translating, and
Literary Appreciation
• Prescribed texts have been refreshed
Key messages
• 2 Units: Translating, Literary Appreciation
• The language and style of the questions in Literary
Appreciation has been revised (Unit Assessment Support
Packs and Course Assessment)
• Question on aspects of Roman culture: Literary
Appreciation Unit and Course Assessment
• Marking Instructions for translating in Course Assessment
2, 1, 0 – same as National 5
Refreshed Prescribed Texts for Literary
Appreciation
• Catullus: Poems (Selections in Latin and in English)
• Ovid: “Pyramus and Thisbe” and “Baucis and Philemon”
(selections from Metamorphoses 4 and 8)
• Virgil: “The story of Dido” Aeneid (Selections from Books 1,
4 and 6)
• Pliny: Letters “The eruption of Vesuvius” (Selections from
Book 6, letters 16 and 20)
• Cicero: "The Governorship of Verres in Sicily" (selections
from In Verrem V)
Assessment Support Schedule 2013/14
Sept 13
CfE Update Letter
Oct 13
Unit Assessment Support (Package 1)
Feb 14
Unit Assessment Support (Package 2)
Feb 14
Higher Specimen Question Paper
Mar 14
Coursework General Assessment Information
Apr 14
Unit Assessment Support (Package 3)
May 14
Update Mandatory Documents
Jun 14
Update Unit Assessment Support
Latin
Unit Assessment
at 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 National 5, 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
Unit Assessment Support at Higher
– key features
• Valid from August 2014
• Complements and supports learning and teaching
• Assess competence against Unit Outcomes and Assessment Standards
• 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
Unit assessment support
packages at Higher - approaches
Package 1
• Unit by Unit approach – discrete assessment tasks for
each Unit
Package 2
• Combined approach – groups Outcomes and Assessment
Standards from different Units by theme and by author
Package 3
Unit by Unit approach – discrete assessment tasks for each
Unit
Assessment Support Package Example
Assessment Support Package 1 for Higher Latin:
• Unit by Unit for each of Translating and Literary Appreciation
Units
• Translating Package 1 covers the Outcome and all
Assessment Standards for the Unit (two translating tasks –
Alexander’s Horse and Hannibal)
• Literary Appreciation Package 1 covers the Outcome and all
Assessment Standards for the Unit (Catullus, Ovid and Virgil
exemplified – candidates should choose and complete 2 of
the 3 tasks successfully to pass the Unit)
• Refreshed approach to show “sufficiency of evidence” in both
Units
• Translating passages can be any appropriate author
Latin
Higher Course Assessment
Course Assessment at Higher
• Course Assessment at National 5, Higher and
Advanced Higher assesses Added Value
• Courses at Higher are normally assessed by one or
two Components
• Courses at Higher are graded A – D, as at present
• Controlled Assessment of setting, conducting and
marking
• For Latin there is a Question Paper for Translating
and a Question Paper for Literary Appreciation.
Higher – Question Paper: Translating
• Set and marked by SQA, and conducted in centres under
conditions specified for external examinations by SQA
• May be any appropriate prose author
• 40 marks (20 blocks)
• 1 hour (100 – 120 words)
• 2 marks for accurate or near accurate translation of the
block and 1 mark for translation of the essential idea
• No scaling of marks
Higher – Question Paper: Literary
Appreciation
• Set and marked by SQA, and conducted in centres under
conditions specified for external examinations by SQA
• 60 marks (30 marks for each of two authors)
• 2 hours
• Questions on understanding, analysis and evaluation
• Extended response question worth 8 marks
• Specific question on understanding of Roman culture
reflected in the text
Workshop 2
- The requirements of the Higher Course Assessment
- How these requirements build on the Higher Units
- How these requirements build on National 5 (where
appropriate)