ARC :: Additional Information

Additional Information

Guidelines for marking

The following guidelines for marking show one approach to assigning a value to a student’s work. Other approaches may be used that better suit the reporting process of the school. Categories, marks, grades, visual representations or individual comments / notations may all be useful.

Range	A student in this range:
High	describes accurately the observable characteristics of a named vertebrate summarised from a variety of sources uses and correctly acknowledges information from a variety of media, for example the internet, CD-ROM, books, encyclopaedias, journals, newspapers presents summarised information using the student-agreed elements in a poster format.
Satisfactory	describes some observable features of a named vertebrate using information extracted from sources uses and acknowledges information from some sources, for example the internet, CD-ROM, print presents descriptive information using some of the student-agreed elements for the poster format.
Progressing	states some features of a named vertebrate uses and acknowledges a source of information with guidance presents information using some of the student-agreed elements for the poster format.

Feedback

Students will undertake self-assessment of their poster presentation and also receive peer and teacher feedback through the use of a poster evaluation sheet. During the teaching-learning experiences leading to the presentation of their poster, students will receive oral and/or teacher feedback in relation to:

identification and use of appropriate sources of secondary information relating to the named vertebrate
techniques for summarising gathered information into a concise description of vertebrate characteristics for the named animal
their use of the provided report scaffold in gathering relevant information from a range of secondary sources
methods used to acknowledge sources of information gathered
use of student-agreed elements for the poster format.

Future directions

Students will use the posters produced by the class as a resource for developing their knowledge and understanding of the variety of vertebrates that currently inhabit the Earth, and the use of observable characteristics in developing a system of classification of these animals. Through future activities students will, in increasingly unguided situations, practise and apply their skills in extracting and summarising information from secondary sources. Students would apply their skills in identifying data sources, gathering, processing and presenting first-hand information when undertaking the mandatory Student Research Project in Stage 4.