Senior Assessment Tasks in Geography, Jo McDonald, Varsity College and Jackie Dunk
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GEOGRAPHY INFORMATION SESSION
GTAQ 2012
State Panel Report – key messages
• Stimulus material• Geographic conventions• Primary data• Scope and scale• Key questions and key ideas• Spatial knowledge• Complex relationships• Concise expression
Stimulus Response Essays
• Essay question needs to clearly separate analysis and decision-making components of the task.
• Be based on a location or issue not studied in class – students apply concepts from class case study.
• Stimulus – manageable with a focus on maps, tables, graphs, images and a limited amount of text.
• Some information such as that related to the alternatives/options may not be provided beforehand so that assessment is authentic.
Sample Essay Question
Your essay should analyse the stimulus by:• identifying and explaining the simple and complex relationships between human development and the impact on the waterway identifying the components of the patterns and processes evident in the human impact which have created flooding problems.Make decisions by:• evaluating the two options by applying appropriate criteria (see Figure 6) choosing the better option to solve the flooding problem, and justifying your choice
Sample Stimulus
Sample Stimulus
Stimulus for Essay or Prac
Practical Exercises • Sufficiently complex manipulation of data• Apply geographic conventions in the
presentation of data• Should be based on a location not studied in
class – students apply concepts from class case study.
• Communication criterion applies only to the manipulation and presentation of data.
• Analysis & Decision-making are enhanced with extra data
Manipulation of Data - Maps
• Maps – e.g. choropleth, proportional circle, flow
Manipulation of Data - Graphs
Short Response Tests
• Coverage of key questions• Coverage of key ideas evident in questions • Provide opportunity for standards A and B –
‘thorough & comprehensive’• Some paragraph length responses• Limit choice – otherwise not ‘comprehensive’.• Spatial knowledge – written and non-written• Evidence of case study/s
Reports
• Primary data collected in the field• Data collection should go beyond observation• Manipulated data provides the basis for the
analysis• Link decision making to the issues identified in
analysis• Keep scope of decision-making manageable• Keep context and scale manageable