Agricultural Technology – Areas for Assessment
- Agricultural enterprises and systems
- Activities: Plant Nutrition Trial, Exploring Value Adding in an Enterprise, Exploring Changes in Farm Practices
- Interaction of agriculture and society
- Activities: Exploring Value Adding in an Enterprise, Exploring Changes in Farm Practices
- Production and marketing
- Activities: Winter Weeds of Crops and Pastures, Cattle breeds for specific climates, Bee Keeping, Exploring Value Adding in an Enterprise, Exploring Changes in Farm Practices
- Safe, ethical and sustainable practices
- Activities: Winter Weeds of Crops and Pastures, Vegetable Production Enterprise - Soil pH Testing, Plant Nutrition Trial, Cattle breeds for specific climates, Bee Keeping
- Problem-solving and communicating
- Activities: Winter Weeds of Crops and Pastures, Vegetable Production Enterprise - Soil pH Testing, Vegetable Production Enterprise - Experimental Design, Plant Nutrition Trial, Cattle breeds for specific climates, Bee Keeping, Exploring Value Adding in an Enterprise, Exploring Changes in Farm Practices
Areas for assessment provide a framework for structuring an assessment program, and may be used for reporting student achievement. They are derived from the course objectives, so they are linked to the course outcomes. Areas for assessment can be used as organisers for assessment of student achievement.
Good assessment practice involves designing quality assessment activities that enable students to demonstrate their achievements. Teachers can use the areas for assessment when designing an assessment activity, to ensure it is assessing performance in relation to a grouping of outcomes.
In designing the assessment schedule for a course, teachers may find it useful to map each planned assessment activity to one or more of the areas for assessment. This allows teachers to ensure that assessment in relation to outcomes can occur across the year in a manageable way.