Assessment Type 3: Community Application Activity (30%)

This assessment is designed by the student. Students connect their community application activity to a community context. They take and apply the knowledge, skills, and understanding of the aspect or area of interest to a community context.  Examples of community application activities are in the ‘Ideas for Activities in each Field of Study’ section.

Where a community activity is undertaken in a group context, each student must present evidence of individual learning so that it can be assessed against the performance standards.

For a 10‑credit subject the community application activity should be a maximum of 750 words if written or a maximum of 5 minutes if oral, or the equivalent in multimodal form. As a guide, the student undertakes the community application activity in approximately 10 hours.

For a 20‑credit subject the community application activity should be a maximum of 1500 words if written or a maximum of 9 minutes if oral, or the equivalent in multimodal form. As a guide, the student undertakes the community application activity in approximately 20 hours.

For both a 10‑credit and a 20‑credit subject, students undertake a community application activity, and provide evidence of:

• connections between their community application activity and subject‑specific knowledge and skills, and their chosen capability
• planning and organisation to undertake the community application activity
• connecting the benefits and future possibilities of the community application activity to the community and themselves.

Ideally, students will make a local community connection when planning their community activity, however, where a resource is not locally available, students should be encouraged to reach out to a relevant connection.

• Connection may be interpreted in its broadest sense, e.g. the connections may be made in‑person, or in a digital environment.
• Community may comprise a club, team, individual, expert, organisation, business, or group within the school.

Evidence of the communication application activity

Students may provide evidence of their community application activity in a range, and combination of forms including but not limited to:

• annotated photographs
• audio recordings
• blogs
• review in comic/magazine format
• interviews
• mind maps
• oral presentations
• photo stories
• podcasts
• reviews/reports
• videos
• screen captures of emails or other digital communications
• websites

Multimodal evidence is encouraged to capture planning activities, strategies to implement activity discussions with others, activity being undertaken, and communication of connectedness and future possibilities.

The following specific features of the assessment design criteria are assessed in the external assessment:

• application and connection — AC1, AC2 and AC3