NCEA L1 Drama flashcards
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- Achieved with Merit
- A grade level above Achieved in NCEA internal Drama standards, showing deeper understanding, more skill, and greater independence than the Achieved criteria require.
- Achieved with Excellence
- The highest grade level for NCEA internal Drama standards, requiring sustained, perceptive, and independent work that meets the Excellence criteria in the standard.
- Devising
- Creating original drama from a starting point such as an idea, image, or text, often collaboratively, with process evidence supporting the final performance.
- Process journal
- A working record kept during devising or rehearsal that documents decisions, changes, and reflections, used as evidence for internal Drama assessment.
- Live audience performance
- A performance given to an audience, which is required evidence for many performance-based internal Drama standards rather than rehearsal alone.
- Technical design evidence
- For technical Drama standards, the design concept, realised design, and explanation of how the design supported the production, submitted for assessment.
- Individual contribution in group work
- Even when Drama work is collaborative, each student is assessed on their own identifiable contribution, understanding, and skill within the group.
- Authenticity in internal assessment
- The requirement that students confirm their submitted Drama work is their own and that sources and outside help are acknowledged.
- Drama elements
- The building blocks of drama, including role, time, space, tension, focus, mood, symbol, contrast, rhythm, and status, used to create meaning.
- Drama conventions
- Established techniques such as monologue, freeze-frame, aside, chorus, or slow motion, used deliberately to shape audience response and meaning.
- Reassessment policy
- The school's rules governing further assessment opportunities; resubmission is generally limited to correcting genuine errors, not a full second attempt.
- Teacher verification
- The teacher's confirmation that the assessed Drama work is authentic and meets the standard, based on observed process and submitted evidence.
- Written examination
- The external assessment format for Drama, in which candidates write answers analysing drama elements, conventions, technologies, and productions studied.
- Grade descriptors
- The criteria for Achieved, Merit, and Excellence used by markers to judge how well a written Drama answer meets the standard.
- Specific evidence
- Concrete detail from a studied production, such as a particular moment, costume, or lighting state, used to support an exam answer.
- Audience effect
- The intended impact of a drama choice on the audience, such as creating tension, mood, or meaning, which exam answers should explain.
- Directorial purpose
- The reason behind a director's choices in a production, which candidates should link to audience effect and meaning in exam answers.
- Evaluation in exam answers
- Judging the significance or effectiveness of drama choices, a higher-order skill typically required for Excellence in external Drama answers.
- Comparison of effects
- Discussing how different drama choices or moments create different audience responses, often expected at Merit or Excellence level.
- Drama terminology
- Correct use of terms such as tension, focus, status, and convention, expected in both internal and external Drama assessment answers.
- Mark weighting
- The number of marks allocated to each exam question, which should guide how much time and detail a candidate gives to each answer.
- Exam planning
- Briefly outlining an answer before writing in the external Drama exam, to organise evidence and ensure the question is directly addressed.
- Question focus
- The specific wording of an exam question, which varies and requires candidates to adapt knowledge rather than reproduce memorised essays.
- External marking
- The process where written Drama exam answers are sent away and marked by markers outside the candidate's school against national standards.
- Live production study
- The preparation of a live or recorded production for external Drama assessment, including analysis of elements, conventions, and technologies used.
- Combining elements and conventions
- How drama elements and conventions work together to create meaning, mood, or tension, a common focus of external exam questions.
- Justification of choices
- Explaining why a drama decision was made and what effect it had, a skill that supports higher grade levels in external assessment.
- Description versus analysis
- Describing what happened in a production versus explaining why and how it created meaning; analysis is required for higher grades.
- Technologies in drama
- Technical areas such as lighting, sound, costume, set, and makeup, which candidates may analyse in external Drama exam answers.
- Mood in drama
- The emotional atmosphere created for the audience through choices of lighting, sound, movement, timing, and performance, often analysed in exams.
- Tension in drama
- A sense of suspense or conflict created through timing, status, space, or dialogue, frequently discussed in both internal and external assessment.
- Focus in drama
- The direction of audience attention, created through staging, lighting, movement, or performance choices, and analysed in Drama assessment.
- Status in drama
- The relative power between characters, shown through posture, voice, space, and timing, and used to create tension and meaning.