Creative Arts | Stage 2 | Planning to Teach | Subject Operational Information | 2020
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Stage 2 Creative Arts
These web pages connect schools and teachers to information on procedures relating to final moderation and external assessment requirements. Key dates, including dates for the submission of results, are also provided.
Stage 2 Creative Arts can be undertaken as a 10-credit subject or a 20-credit subject.
The learning and assessment requirements for this subject are set out in the subject outline [DOC 1.8MB].
Refer to Learning and assessment plans for information on developing and approving Stage 2 Creative Arts LAPs.
Online moderation and marking
School assessment materials will be submitted for online moderation using school assessment results sheets in Schools Online.
External assessment materials will be submitted for online marking using investigation results sheets in Schools Online.
Key dates
For a simplified list of key operational dates, see the Creative Arts calendar.
School assessment component
Teachers assess the evidence of student learning for:
- Assessment Type 1: Product
- Assessment Type 2: Investigation.
The SACE Board quality assures the school assessment results through final moderation.
Refer to SACE Assessment and Reporting Guidelines [PDF 290KB] and SACE Stage 2 Moderation Overview [DOC 33KB] for information about the policy context and procedures.
Moderation sample selection
Teachers select the moderation sample of school-assessed materials to submit to the SACE Board.
Refer to Moderation sample selection, which includes FAQs and an instructional video.
Submitting school assessment materials for final moderation
For more information see Online submission of materials.
Supervision and verification
Refer to the information in Supervision and Verification of Students' Work: Policy and Procedures [DOC 90KB] on the use of the record sheet [DOC 164KB] to record and authenticate each student's work. If used, these sheets are to be kept in the school until the end of the clerical check period.
A teacher who is unable to verify that the work is the student's own must initiate a breach of rules action through the school's SACE/NTCET coordinator.
Information
- Results sheets and online submission — Stage 2 final moderation (Information sheet 50)
- Moderation sample selection
- Advice on preparing Stage 2 materials
External assessment component
For a 10-credit subject or a 20-credit subject, students undertake one external assessment, consisting of a practical skills assessment. Students are required to:
- conduct a focused exploration, application, and evaluation of a skill or skills appropriate to their preferred area of the creative arts
- provide documentation of the key phases of the skills exploration and application
- present an evaluative response.
For a 10-credit subject, the combined evidence of the documentation and evaluation should be a maximum of 1000 words if written or a maximum of 6 minutes of recorded oral communication, or the equivalent in multimodal form.
For a 20-credit subject, the combined evidence of the documentation and evaluation should be a maximum of 2000 words if written or a maximum of 12 minutes of recorded oral communication, or the equivalent in multimodal form.
Refer to the subject outline for details of the practical skills requirements.
Submitting materials for external assessment
For more information see Online submission of materials.
Assessment Type 3: Practical Skills
This assessment type is categorised as an investigation for operational purposes.
Investigation materials for Creative Arts are submitted online.
The teacher assesses each student's practical skills assessment and then submits all practical skills assessments for the class to the SACE Board for external assessment.
Supervision and verification
Refer Supervision and Verification of Students' Work: Policy and Procedures [DOC 90KB]. Teachers must use the record sheet [DOC 164KB] to record and authenticate each student's work. These sheets are to be kept in the school until the end of the clerical check period.
A teacher who is unable to verify that any practical skills work, or part of any practical skills work, is the student's own must submit a completed report of potential breach of rules [DOC 108KB] to the SACE Board, through the school's SACE/NTCET coordinator.
Information
- Results sheets and online submission — Stage 2 investigations (Information sheet 51)
- external assessment cover sheet [DOC 34KB]