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Modern History
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Accredited in August 2017 for teaching at Stage 1 from 2018.
Stage 1 | Subject outline | School assessment | Assessment Type 2: Historical Study
Assessment Type 2: Historical Study
For a 10-credit subject, students complete one historical study.
For a 20-credit subject, students complete two historical studies.
The historical study must be based on an aspect of the world since 1750. Students inquire into, explore, interpret, and research a historical idea, event, person, or group in depth.
The focus of the historical study may be chosen by the teacher, or negotiated by a student.
The historical study may be presented in written, oral, or multimodal form. In whichever form, the historical study must enable students to:
- apply the skills of historical inquiry to evaluate sources
- develop a reasoned historical argument, based on analysis and interpretation of evidence from sources
- draw conclusions supported by evidence
- use subject-specific language
- appropriately acknowledge the sources used.
The historical study should be a maximum of 1000 words, or 6 minutes, or the equivalent in multimodal form.
For this assessment type, students provide evidence of their learning in relation to the following assessment design criteria:
- understanding and exploration
- application and evaluation
- analysis.