Assessment program audit tool
For Authority subjects

Vietnamese 2008

The purpose of this audit tool is to enable schools to compare the requirements of their assessment program with the minimum assessment requirements of the syllabus, and to subsequently consider possible amendments to their school work program.

Assessment instruments required in Year 12 (including objectives and dimensions assessed) / Conditions required by the syllabus — e.g. word length, time, genre / School assessment instruments (including objectives and dimensions assessed) / Conditions in school work program / Variations
Refer to syllabus verification and post-verification requirements / Refer to the syllabus assessment section / Refer to the school’s approved work program / Refer to the school’s approved work program / How does the school’s assessment program differ from syllabus requirements?
Verification requirements
Minimum eight instruments demonstrating a variety of techniques over a range of topics including:
  • two assessment instruments from each macroskill
listening
reading
speaking
writing
  • at least three macroskills to be assessed in Term 3.
Each macroskill is assessed:
  • separately
  • under supervised conditions
  • in communicative contexts.
/ Syllabus, p. 44
Syllabus, pp. 33, 43 / School assessment program
Assessment categories
Receptive skills:
Listening instruments
Dimensions assessed:
  • Knowing and understanding
  • Reasoning and responding.
/ Instruments must allow students to produce response/s to authentic texts differing in length, purpose and style.
Conditions:
  • instructions, questions and responses in English
  • text length to be appropriate to text type
  • texts generally heard twice, three times if complex
  • judicious pauses in longer texts are allowed.
Syllabus, p. 34
Reading instruments
Dimensions assessed:
  • Knowing and understanding
  • Reasoning and responding.
/ Instruments must allow students to produce response/s to authentic texts, differing in length, purpose and complexity.
Conditions:
  • instructions, questions and responses in English
  • text length and type to be appropriate to text type
  • dictionaries not permitted.
Syllabus, p. 34–35
Productive skills:
Speaking instruments
Dimensions assessed:
  • Knowing and understanding
  • Reasoning and responding.
/ Instruments must allow students to demonstrate spontaneous language use in realistic situations.
Conditions:
  • preparation time is to reflect text type:
unprepared (unseen) tasks: up to 10 minutes (no access to reference material)
prepared tasks: may use visual aids; may not read from a script; questioning to follow
  • students are not given teacher questions prior to the task
  • at least one spontaneous task (of a teacher–student performance) must be recorded.
Syllabus, pp. 35
Writing instruments
Dimensions assessed:
  • Knowing and understanding
  • Reasoning and responding.
/ Instruments require students to respond to unseen tasks that are set in an authentic social context with a realistic purpose and a specified audience.
Conditions:
  • instructions given in English
  • stimulus material (English or Vietnamese) to neither impede nor assist
  • length dependent on text type; at least one extended passage (approximately 200 words) by the end of Year12
  • dictionaries may be used.
Syllabus, p. 36
Post-verification requirements
Minimum of one and a maximum of two assessment instrument/s:
  • from macroskill/s of teacher’s choice
  • all dimensions to be assessed.
/ Conditions as above, relevant to the skill/s selected.
Syllabus, p. 45
Assessment program audit tool
Vietnamese 2008 / Queensland Curriculum & Assessment Authority
July 2014
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Summary

Where the school’s assessment plan differs from the minimum syllabus requirements, consider:

  • are these choices the most effective way to gather information about student learning?
  • what is the rationale behind these school decisions?
  • what changes could be made to the school’s work program?

More information

Please email or phone (07) 3864 0375.

Assessment program audit tool
Vietnamese 2008 / Queensland Curriculum & Assessment Authority
July 2014
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