Assessment Type 1: Geographical Skills and Applications

Students produce at least two geographical skills and applications tasks for a 10-credit subject, and at least four for a 20-credit subject, to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of geographical concepts, and to examine geographical features, patterns, and processes.

These tasks may be multimodal, written, and/or oral in 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.

Geographical skills and applications tasks could include, for example:

• an oral presentation with visual representations about a case study of a megacity or a hazard
• a biological-hazard mapping exercise using spatial technology
• a written response to geographical data making recommendations about a global issue
• a letter, report, or proposal about a local issue
• an interactive presentation about urban planning, using multimedia technology
• data collection and analysis relating to the local area
• comparison of vulnerability of risk of hazards in different locations
• land-use mapping of a rural or remote location
• designing a map with a specific purpose, such as a tourism map or liveability map
• a recommendation about how to respond to global waste issues.

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

• knowledge and understanding
• analysis and evaluation
• application.