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Formal Assessment in Preliminary and HSC SDD
Extracted and quoted from the NESA document Assessment and Reporting in Software Design and Development Stage 6Formal Assessment in Preliminary and HSC SDD
"Formal school-based assessment provides opportunities to gather evidence about student achievement of syllabus outcomes in different ways to the HSC examinations. Formal assessment tasks are those which students undertake as part of the school-based assessment program, reflecting specific course requirements, components and weightings."
Both year 11 and year 12 have the following weighting of components:
The Year 11 formal school-based assessment program is to reflect the following requirements:
- three assessment tasks
- the minimum weighting for an individual task is 20%
- the maximum weighting for an individual task is 40%
- only one task may be a formal written examination.
The Year 12 formal school-based assessment program is to reflect the following requirements:
- a maximum of four assessment tasks
- the minimum weighting for an individual task is 10%
- the maximum weighting for an individual task is 40%
- only one task may be a formal written examination with a maximum weighting of 30%.
Other informal assessment tasks can include
- Worksheets
- Practice Exam Questions
- Research Tasks
- Summary Notes
- Programming Tasks
- Topic Tests
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