ASSESSMENTKnowledge

andUnderstanding

Application

Skills

Question 3a 7 7

b 4 4 8

c 2 8 10

6 4 15 25

ASSESSMENT

ASSESSMENT

Find a resource that allows the application of a

skill – use of maps

ASSESSMENT

a) Use the resource to describe

Changes in the distribution of beech

and oak in Japan.

Recognition of changes.

Development using the resource

ASSESSMENT

b) Outline the two potential impacts of

rising sea levels on people.• Allows candidates to choose the areas with

which they are more confident .• Limits the amount they have to recall and

allows better candidates to develop knowledge and understanding in depth.

• Allows the use of exemplar material form different areas.

• Allows candidates to choose which impacts they want – social, demographic or economic.

• Potential allows future impacts that may have been studied.

ASSESSMENTLooking for:

― Knowledge and understanding

― Address the question

― Structuring of answer

― Use of examples

― Application of knowledge – if sea level rises then .............

― Precision – not generalised

― Use of diagrams where appropriate

― Balance

― QWE

ASSESSMENT

c) Discuss the success of strategies

used to address climate change by

either:

international bodies

or

pressure groups and individuals

ASSESSMENTLooking for:― Knowledge and understanding

― Address the question― Discussion/evaluation― Structuring of answer― Use of examples ― Application of knowledge― Precision – not generalised― Use of diagrams where appropriate― Balance― QWE

ASSESSMENT

a) Compare the flood hydrographs shown in the resource.

Looking for:• Comparison comments• Use of resource – detail from the data

ASSESSMENT

b) Outline the information you would collect, and how you would collect it, for an investigation into the variation of land uses between two small adjacent drainage basins.

Looking for:• Data to be collected• Sampling techniques• Data sources• Data collection sheets

These are possible approaches

ASSESSMENT

c) Outline the methods used to present data for an investigation into changing physical environments that you have completed.

Looking for

• Knowledge of methods

• Appropriate use of the methods

• Evaluation may be a feature of better answers

For further information, please contact the subject

officer at the WJEC

Raye Scott245 Western AvenueCardiffCF5 2YX

raye.scott@wjec.co.uk