Sample assessment instrument and student responses. Extended response: Written persuasive text suitable for a public audience

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1 Extended response: Written persuasive text suitable for a public audience This sample is intended to inform the design of assessment instruments in the senior phase of learning. It highlights the qualities of student work and the match to the syllabus standards. Dimensions assessed Understanding and responding to contexts Understanding and controlling textual features Creating and evaluating meaning Assessment instrument The response presented in this sample is in response to an assessment task Context: You have read and analysed a selection of editorial cartoons and humorous feature articles and have explored the ways that cartoonists and journalists use humour and other textual and aesthetic features to represent ideas and attitudes. Task: Write a feature article which analyses how a newspaper columnist or editorial cartoonist uses humour and other techniques to represent particular ideas or attitudes and how this influences readers. Genre: Feature article Role: Student columnist Audience: Readers of a weekend newspaper Purpose: To analyse; to evaluate Length: words 14802

2 Instrument-specific standards matrix Student responses have been matched to instrument-specific criteria and standards; those which best describe the student work in this sample are shown below. For more information about the syllabus dimensions and standards descriptors, see assessment.html. Standard A Standard C Understanding and responding to contexts The student work has the following characteristics: exploitation of genre achieve specific purposes discerning selection, organisation and synthesis of relevant and substantive subject matter to support opinions and perspectives manipulation and control of role of the feature article writer and relationship with. The student work has the following characteristics: use of genre achieve purposes selection, sequencing and organisation of relevant subject matter to support opinions and perspectives establishment and maintenance of role of the feature article writer and relationship with. The student work has the following characteristics: The student work has the following characteristics: Understanding and controlling textual features a discerning combination of a range of grammatically structures for specific effects, including clauses and sentences discerning use of cohesive devices to develop and emphasise ideas and connect parts of the feature article, including discerning use of a wide range of apt vocabulary for specific purposes discerning use of mode-appropriate features to achieve specific effects: conventional spelling and punctuation design elements discerning analysis of the ways ideas, attitudes and values underpin humorous texts and influence audiences subtle and complex evaluation of perspectives and representations of concepts, identities, times and places in use of a range of mostly grammatically structures to achieve purposes, including clauses and sentences use of cohesive devices to link ideas and connect parts of the feature article, including use of suitable vocabulary for purposes suitable use of mode-appropriate features to achieve purposes: conventional spelling and punctuation design elements analysis of the ways ideas, attitudes and values underpin and influence audiences evaluation of perspectives and representations of concepts, identities, times and places in discerning evaluation of aesthetic features and their effects in. identification and explanation of aesthetic features and their effects in. Note: Colour highlights have been used in the table to emphasise the qualities that discriminate between the standards. Page 2 of 9

3 Student response Standard A The annotations show the match to the instrument-specific standards. Comments discerning use of mode-appropriate features to achieve specific effects exploitation of genre achieve specific purposes a discerning combination of a range of grammatically structures for specific effects, including clauses and sentences manipulation and control of role of the feature article writer and relationship with discerning use of a wide range of apt vocabulary for specific purposes a discerning combination of a range of grammatically structures for specific effects, including clauses and sentences Page 3 of 9

4 Comments discerning selection, organisation and synthesis of relevant and substantive subject matter to support opinions and perspectives subtle and complex evaluation of perspectives and representations of concepts, identities, times and places in discerning analysis of the ways ideas, attitudes and values underpin humorous texts and influence audiences discerning use of a wide range of apt vocabulary for specific purposes discerning use of cohesive devices to develop and emphasise ideas and connect parts of the feature article, including discerning evaluation of aesthetic features and their effects in manipulation and control of role of the feature article writer and relationship with Page 4 of 9

5 Comments discerning selection, organisation and synthesis of relevant and substantive subject matter to support opinions and perspectives exploitation of genre achieve specific purposes manipulation and control of role of the feature article writer and relationship with a discerning combination of a range of grammatically structures for specific effects, including clauses and sentences manipulation and control of role of the feature article writer and relationship with Page 5 of 9

6 Student response Standard C The annotations show the match to the instrument-specific standards. Comments use of genre achieve purposes establishment and maintenance of role of the feature article writer and relationship with use of suitable vocabulary for purposes use of a range of mostly grammatically structures to achieve purposes, including clauses and sentences use of genre achieve purposes selection, sequencing and organisation of relevant subject matter to support opinions and perspectives Page 6 of 9

7 Comments establishment and maintenance of role of the feature article writer and relationship with selection, sequencing and organisation of relevant subject matter to support opinions and perspectives analysis of the ways ideas, attitudes and values underpin and influence audiences use of suitable vocabulary for purposes use of cohesive devices to link ideas and connect parts of the feature article, including analysis of the ways ideas, attitudes and values underpin and influence audiences identification and explanation of aesthetic features and their effects in evaluation of perspectives and representations of concepts, identities, times and places in Page 7 of 9

8 Comments use of a range of mostly grammatically structures to achieve purposes, including clauses and sentences analysis of the ways ideas, attitudes and values underpin and influence audiences identification and explanation of aesthetic features and their effects in use of genre patterns and achieve purposes use of genre achieve purposes use of cohesive devices to link ideas and connect parts of the feature article, including establishment and maintenance of role of the feature article writer and relationship with Page 8 of 9

9 Acknowledgments The QCAA acknowledges the contribution of All Saints Anglican School in the preparation of this document. Page 9 of 9