Assessment Type 1: Responding to Texts (30%)

Students produce three responses to texts. At least one of the responses must be produced in written form, and at least one response in oral or multimodal form.

A written response should be a maximum of 800 words; an oral response should be a maximum of
5 minutes; a response in multimodal form should be of equivalent length.

Texts for study should be selected from at least two of the following text types or purposes:

• a workplace text (i.e. one dealing with a vocational process or issue)
• an advocacy text (i.e. one that seeks to change attitudes or actions)
• a biographical text
• a narrative text
• an imaginative text
• a social media text
• a non-fiction text
• a prose text (or extract)
• a speech or oral presentation (e.g. a motivational speech by a sports coach)
• a visual text
• a media text
• a dramatic text
• a poetry text.

Responses to texts could include, but are not limited to:

• an evaluation of a section of a workplace text
• an oral presentation with visual images
• comments on a section of a film text (i.e. director’s commentary)
• an essay
• a web page
• a monologue
• a role play.

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

• communication
• comprehension
• analysis.