Unit 4 Global Politics
Sample approach to developing an assessment task
Area of study 2: Global crises
Global crises
Outcome 2
Analyse TWO contemporary global crises and evaluate the effectiveness of global actors’
responses to these. |
Report
Topic: to resolve a global crisis effectively, its causes must be addressed.
Time
This task should be completed in class over approximately 60 minutes.
Requirements
Students are to prepare a written report. Authenticated research notes allowed.
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Designing the task
Consider all key knowledge points. There is a variety of terms that students need to familiarise themselves within the Area of Study related to global crisis. Students should use the following headings to organize their research:
- the causes
- the responses from relevant global actors and their effectiveness
- challenges to achieving effective resolutions
- key aspects of the crisis.
When developing the task the teacher must consider how the report is researched and presented, include research gathering and data organisation, the report write up and presentation.
Students may be provided with a research organisation tool and/or a report template as part of the process of research.
It is a teacher based decision if students are allowed to use their research notes when writing up the report and if students respond to a seen or unseen question. However, authentication of student work must be assured.
The key skills require that a student ‘evaluate the effectiveness of responses to global crises by relevant global actors’, therefore, the report question must require students to reflect and evaluate. The following is a sample research report question: ‘To resolve a global crisis effectively, its causes must be addressed.’
Marking the task
The marking scheme used to assess a student’s level of performance should reflect the relevant aspects of the performance descriptors and be explained to students before commencing the task.
Authentication
The teacher must consider the conditions in which the research report is conducted. Is research conducted inside and/or outside of class? Teachers may choose to have seen or unseen research notes as part of the task conditions. When students are conducting research, it is important that conditions are established to ensure students work can be authenticated. Authentication issues can be minimized if students complete an assessment task conducted under test conditions. Further information regarding the VCAA authentication rules can be found in the
VCE and VCAL Administration Handbook.