Assessment Type 1: Responding to Texts

Students produce written, oral, and/or multimodal responses to a text or texts.

For a 10-credit subject, students complete at least one response to text. For a 20-credit subject, students complete at least two responses to texts.

They may respond to texts in a variety of forms, including a series of short answers and/or extended responses. The length of responses to texts can vary. Some responses may be short, others may be longer; however, no response should be more than 800 words or 5 minutes, or the equivalent in multimodal form.

Responses to texts could include, for example:

• a commentary on a workplace text
• an oral presentation with visual images
• an email in response to a text
• a series of brief responses to a film text
• a discussion of a film, television program, or game
• a review or comment on a set of instructions (e.g. a manual)
• a blog in response to a news item or sports report
• a set of annotations on a community information text
• a director’s commentary on a section of a visual or dramatic text
• exploration of the use of language in a campaign (e.g. advertising, political, advocacy).

For this assessment type, students provide evidence of their learning primarily in relation to the following assessment design criteria:

• communication
• comprehension
• analysis.