Assessment Type 1: Historical Skills

For a 10-credit subject, students complete three historical skills assessments.

For a 20-credit subject, students complete six historical skills assessments.

Students apply their skills of historical inquiry to research, explore, interpret, and communicate their understanding of ideas, people, and events in history. They develop their historical literacy skills, including by exploring short-term and long-term impacts of ideas, people, groups, and events; analysing and evaluating historical sources; interpreting historical texts; and developing their own perspectives on historical questions.

Tasks may include, but are not limited to:

• an essay
• a sources analysis
• an oral presentation
• a multimodal presentation
• a research assignment
• a role play
• a debate
• an empathetic piece
• a historical report
• an excursion report
• an obituary
• a primary source trail
• a photo-story
• a podcast
• a historical atlas
• a time capsule
• a museum exhibit
• a web page
• a historical media study
• a biographical sketch.

The three historical skills assessments should comprise a combined maximum of 2400 words if written, or a maximum of 15 minutes if oral, or the equivalent in multimodal form.

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

• understanding and exploration
• application and evaluation
• analysis.