ESH Online Clarifying - Activity 2 - Intertextual Study

Online Clarifying Activity 2
Stage 1 English - Intertextual Study

Clarifying your assessment decisions involves:

Reading the performance standards and viewing samples of student work
Making an assessment decision
Comparing your assessment decision with the statewide decision.

As a guide, view the student work to build an initial interpretation. Identify where each specific feature lies to confirm the grade. Step back to consider the evidence and specific features as a whole to make a final decision.

Access performance standards and student work

Please note that clicking on the 'Access performance standards and student work' link above will prompt your computer to download and open the performance standards and student work sample in a new tab. You will need to navigate back to this page/tab when you are ready to record your final assessment decision.

Record your final assessment decision and three key features you identified in the student work that support your final assessment decision.

Key feature 1

Key feature 2

Key feature 3

Final assessment decision*

A B C D E

Consider the evidence and specific features as a whole and make a final decision.

Click the submit button to receive the statewide decision.

Use the annotated performance standards and student work to compare your decision with the statewide benchmark decision. This involves not only comparing the overall assessment decisions but also comparing the key features you identified with the key features identified in the annotated student work.