Textiles Technology – Areas for Assessment
- Properties and performance
- Activities: Student Negotiated Textile Project, Selection and Use of Textiles, Slipper Deconstruction, Inspirational Bags - Evaluation Report
- Textiles and society
- Activities: Influences on Costume Design
- Designing and communicating
- Activities: Student Negotiated Textile Project, Influences on Costume Design
- Using textiles
- Activities: Student Negotiated Textile Project, Selection and Use of Textiles, Experimentation with Construction and Decorative Techniques, Managing Quality Textile Projects, Textile Item
- Producing and evaluating textiles
- Activities: Student Negotiated Textile Project, Experimentation with Construction and Decorative Techniques, Textile Item, Inspirational Bags - Evaluation Report
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.