Assessment

This section contains information, resources and tools to help teachers make a consistent and balanced assessment of student achievement.

VCAA Humanities - Humanities assessment maps – Level 3
(http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/assessment/maps/maps_domain/humanities) - a tool to help teachers assess student work using the Victorian Essential Learning Standards. They provide a range of annotated student work samples which can be used in conjunction with the progression points to help teachers make consistent, on-balance judgments about student achievement.

VCAA History assessment maps – Levels 4 - 6
(http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/assessment/maps/maps_domain/humanities/history) - a tool to help teachers assess student work using the Victorian Essential Learning Standards. They provide a range of annotated student work samples which can be used in conjunction with the progression points to help teachers make consistent, on-balance judgments about student achievement.

Multi domain assessment - Sample task 6 - Your Pursuit
focuses on history, thinking processes and communication at Level 5. The sample task is for students to create a 'Trivial Pursuit' style of board game to test the local historical knowledge of Year 7 and 8 students. It follows each of the seven key principles of the design guidelines and provides a reflection on the task at every stage.