Assessment Requirements and Criteria

Assessment Requirements

For assessment you will be required to submit a portfolio of work which contains:

• A Critical Listening Summary and a selection of Learning Log entries documenting and reflecting on project work in relation to learning outcomes  

• A Body of Work 

• A Critical Review (1250 written words or 10 minute presentation) 

• Reflective Presentation/Evaluation (750 written words or 6 minute presentation)

Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria

As a reminder, the Learning Outcomes for this unit are:

1. Employ the use of advanced technical skills appropriate to your pathway and communicate your ideas in professionally-appropriate formats. (A1)

2. Construct practical work creatively and adventurously with an articulate, emerging musical voice (A2)

3. Analyse and interpret larger-scale compositional structures and apply your knowledge to practical and academic outputs. (A3)

4. Demonstrate enhanced research and critical thinking skills through a range of outputs. (A4)

Your work will be assessed using the OCA’s assessment criteria, which are each mapped against some, or all, of the unit Learning Outcomes. 

Knowledge

Demonstrating a deepening awareness of practical and contextual knowledge, and a recognition of subject knowledge and boundaries. 

• Subject knowledge: Identify, define, and describe appropriate principles, concepts and subject knowledge.

• Practical knowledge: Demonstrate the use of  technologies, methods, practices and processes related to the subject.

• Contextual knowledge: Identify, define, and describe contemporary and historical practices, theories, and debates.

• Subject boundaries: Acknowledge emerging practices and wider contexts that shape subject knowledge and boundaries.

This criteria is mapped against the following Learning Outcomes:

1. Employ the use of advanced technical skills appropriate to your pathway and communicate your ideas in professionally-appropriate formats. (A1)

3. Analyse and interpret larger-scale compositional structures and apply your knowledge to practical and academic outputs. (A3)

4. Demonstrate enhanced research and critical thinking skills through a range of outputs. (A4)

Understanding

Selecting, testing and interpreting focused research, and applying developing critical thinking and creativity to produce effective and increasingly individual ideas and outcomes. 

• Research: Select, question, test, interpret and synthesize relevant knowledge to inform intentions, ideas, and outcomes.

• Critical thinking: Apply critical thinking to develop an informed personal position.

• Creativity: Apply curiosity, creativity, and intellectual enquiry to initiate, test, and articulate ideas and outcomes in inventive and individual ways.

This criteria is mapped against the following Learning Outcomes:

2. Construct practical work creatively and adventurously with an articulate, emerging musical voice (A2)

3. Analyse and interpret larger-scale compositional structures and apply your knowledge to practical and academic outputs. (A3)

4. Demonstrate enhanced research and critical thinking skills through a range of outputs. (A4)

Application

Applying developing personal and graduate skills to initiate and sustain studies and growing practice, and increasingly relevant practical, technical, and communication skills to articulate ideas, and outcomes effectively. 

• Practical skills: Select, test and use materials, media and techniques to realise and present ideas and solutions.

• Technical skills: Apply appropriate technical skills and processes to develop and produce outcomes.

• Communication skills: Employ communication skills to effectively present ideas, intentions, and outcomes.

• Personal and transferable skills: Use personal and transferable skills to effectively sustain independent learning and reflect on progress.

• Graduate skills: Apply transferable and graduate skills in establishing appropriate professional practices and standards.

This criteria is mapped against the following Learning Outcomes:

1. Employ the use of advanced technical skills appropriate to your pathway and communicate your ideas in professionally-appropriate formats. (A1)

3. Analyse and interpret larger-scale compositional structures and apply your knowledge to practical and academic outputs. (A3)

4. Demonstrate enhanced research and critical thinking skills through a range of outputs. (A4)