QCH526 Assessment and Evaluation in Secondary History

Course code & Title: QCH526 Assessment and Evaluation in Secondary History

Course Description:

This course enables student-teachers to conduct assessment and evaluation in History. To meet the objectives and examination requirements of the new syllabus, emphasis is given to the use of source materials. It examines how primary and secondary sources can be used in constructing document-based items as specified in the assessment framework. The course gives student teachers practice in setting source-based and structured-essay questions, devising marking schemes and marking answer scripts. It also introduces student teachers to formative assessments as an alternative method to assess and evaluate students’ learning.

Assessment:

Section A

Part I

LITERATURE REVIEW – Pair Work (25%)

As a pair, explore an issue in the History syllabus on which you will be setting your source-based questions. Write a 10 page literature review of that issue you have chosen. You will upload a soft copy of your assignment onto Blackboard – Assignments – LitReview on the same day. You need to download a copy of the non-plagiarism declaration, sign it and attach it to the hard copy of your pair work. This form applies to your part of the assignment as well.

Part 2

SOURCE-BASED ASSIGNMENT (50%)

Searching For Sources – Individual (25%)

Individually initiate a search for four primary and/or secondary sources related to the issue on which your literature review is based on for a particular level and course. The sources selected should be varied such as photographs, written texts, cartoons, etc., on the issue you have chosen. After selecting the sources, you are to:

a) Edit and make these sources suitable for the target students

b) (i) Interpret each of the sources and (ii) explain why each was selected and (iii) what students can learn from them

Setting Source-Based Questions and LORMS – Pair Work (25%)

As a pair you will now have to decide which of the sources you will use to set your SBQs from the eight sources that you have worked on earlier

a) Set source-based questions for the set of sources you have chosen.

b) Provide an accompanying mark scheme with examples of for the descriptors for each level.

Section B

STRUCTURED-ESSAY ASSIGNMENT - Individual (25%)

Select 3 topics and set structured-essay questions on them. Come up with a marking scheme with examples for each level descriptor. You have to do the mark scheme for only one of the topics.