External assessment in Technologies subjects
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In 2021, we really think students need to know about the cognitions — what they mean, how to respond to questions within the cognitive load or cognitive level of the question. The cognitions are within the syllabus and they really should be practising using those
Cognitions in all of the responses to their tasks, their internal assessment as well as their external assessment. There’s definitions, the teachers will have the Cognitive verb toolkit which will assist students to be able to respond to those to the level that is required in the questions.
For any of the definitions, for any of the terms within the syllabus, the subject matter, students really need to make sure that they understand all of those glossary terms. If your examination has a stimulus listed in the specifications,
You need to make sure that you do some stimulus practice to engage with the stimulus. Use the mock and the sample and the EA 2020 stimulus to make sure that you have a really good understanding of how to unpack it and how to respond effectively to the question.
Make sure that you look at the question, plan the response to the question and be able to respond to it as the question is asked, so get the intended response from the wording within the question. Write as succinctly as you can to respond to the question,
Don’t try and add extra words, sometimes that doesn’t help. OK, so you could go to myQCE website and you’ll find some information around a guide for students for external assessment. As well as that, you do need
To access the syllabus and make sure that you understand the levels of cognitions in there. You’ll find all of that information on the syllabus page on the QCAA website along with the past examination papers and the EAMG (External Assessment Marking Guide) for the paper.
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