SACE Stage 2 Tourism cheat sheet

School assessment in SACE Stage 2 Tourism is weighted 70% of the final subject grade; the external assessment contributes the remaining 30%.

School assessment has two components: Skills and Application Tasks (foliage of practical tourism skills) and an Investigation, together making the 70% school-assessed portion.

Performance Standards describe five levels of achievement (A to E) and are used holistically; a grade is assigned by matching evidence to the descriptors, not by adding marks.

Assessment types must be drawn from the approved list for the subject; each task is matched to specific Performance Standards and to the relevant learning requirements.

Moderation is the process by which school-assessed grades are checked against state standards; schools submit student evidence samples and the moderator confirms or adjusts the school's grades.

Each student's evidence must be individually identifiable; group work is permitted only where the assessed evidence of the individual can be separately judged.

Assessment tasks must allow students to demonstrate all five levels; tasks pitched only at lower levels cannot support an A grade.

Plagiarism and use of unacknowledged sources is a breach of assessment integrity and results in the task not being counted toward the grade.

The external assessment is worth 30% of the final grade and is set and marked by the SACE Board, not by the school.

External assessment typically consists of an externally assessed investigation or folio task plus an examination; the exact structure is specified in the current subject outline.

Externally assessed work is completed under supervised conditions or submitted as an authenticated product; teachers verify authenticity before submission.

Examination questions are drawn from the learning requirements and assessed against the same Performance Standards used for school assessment.

Students may bring only approved materials into the examination room; unapproved notes, phones or smart devices are prohibited.

Marks from school assessment and external assessment are combined according to the specified weightings to produce the final subject grade.

A student who does not submit the external assessment component cannot be awarded a complete subject grade in that subject.