SACE Stage 2 Tourism flashcards
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- SACE Stage 2 Tourism weighting
- School assessment contributes 70% and external assessment 30% of the final subject grade in SACE Stage 2 Tourism.
- Performance Standards
- Five-level descriptors from A to E that describe the quality of student evidence and are applied holistically when assigning a grade.
- Moderation
- The quality-assurance process in which a moderator checks school-assessed grades against state standards, using samples of student evidence.
- Learning requirements
- The stated knowledge, skills and understandings a student must develop in the subject; they frame what assessment tasks must assess.
- Assessment task design
- Tasks must be drawn from the approved types, be matched to Performance Standards, and allow students to demonstrate achievement at all levels.
- Individual evidence rule
- Even in group activities, each student's contribution must be separately identifiable and assessable, so grades reflect individual achievement.
- Authenticity
- Teachers must verify that submitted work is the student's own before it is counted or sent for external assessment.
- Academic integrity
- All sources must be acknowledged; unacknowledged copying or use of others' work breaches assessment rules and can void the task.
- Folio of evidence
- A collection of a student's assessment tasks and results used by the school and moderator to confirm the final grade.
- Grade assignment
- Teachers match the body of evidence to the Performance Standards descriptors rather than summing marks to a percentage.
- Practical tourism skills
- Skills such as itinerary planning, customer service and destination research that are assessed through application tasks in school assessment.
- Investigation task
- A structured research task in which students investigate a tourism issue or destination and present findings in an approved format.
- Assessment plan
- The school's schedule of tasks, their types, weightings and timing, designed to cover all learning requirements across the year.
- Feedback and improvement
- Formative feedback is given before summative judgement so students can act on it; final grades rest on summative evidence only.
- External assessment weighting
- The externally set and marked component contributes 30% of the final grade and is administered under SACE Board rules.
- Externally assessed investigation
- A research-based task set by the SACE Board, completed and authenticated by the student, then submitted for external marking.
- Examination conditions
- Supervised, timed conditions in which only approved materials are permitted; phones and smart devices are not allowed.
- Approved materials
- Items students may legally bring into the examination, such as specified calculators or permitted notes, as listed in the subject outline.
- Question source
- Examination questions are based on the subject's learning requirements and assessed using the same Performance Standards as school work.
- Final grade combination
- School assessment and external assessment results are combined using the published weightings to produce the final subject grade.
- Non-submission consequence
- A student who fails to complete the external assessment component cannot receive a complete subject grade for that subject.
- SACE Board
- The authority that sets external assessment, oversees moderation, and issues final results for SACE subjects.
- Subject outline
- The official document specifying learning requirements, assessment types, weightings and external assessment structure for the subject.
- Supervised conditions
- Assessment completed under invigilation, ensuring the work is the student's own and produced within the set time.
- Authentication declaration
- A signed statement confirming the submitted work is the student's own and that sources have been acknowledged.
- Marking rubric
- The criteria and descriptors used by external markers to judge the quality of responses against Performance Standards.
- Time allocation
- Examination duration and reading time are fixed by the SACE Board and published in the subject outline before the assessment period.
- Resulting
- The process of finalising grades after moderation and external marking, combining components by weighting.
- Appeal process
- A formal procedure allowing students to query results through the school and the SACE Board within specified timeframes.
- Special provisions
- Approved adjustments to assessment conditions for students with a verified disability or disadvantage, granted before the assessment.
- External marking
- Judging of external assessment by trained markers, not the student's teacher, ensuring consistency across all schools.
- Syllabus alignment
- External tasks and questions must align with the published learning requirements; content outside the outline is not assessed.