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Zines - Level 6 Sample Unit

Assessment

The Victorian Essential Learning Standards supports a combination of assessment practices:

Assessment of learning (summative)
Assessment for learning (formative)
Assessment as learning (ongoing)

Further information on these can be found at: Assessment and Reporting

When assessing student achievement, assessment criteria can be developed from relevant standards and associated tasks or activities. The table below shows a range of assessment criteria, tools and strategies applicable to this unit. Teachers could choose to use some or all of these or use the unit to assess other standards.

Standards	Assessment criteria (Examples)	Evidence
Interpersonal Development Working in teams	Ability to: • identify and use strengths of a team • set goals and meet timelines	Project plan (ICT)
Personal learning The individual learner	• identify areas for improvement in their learning	Record of ‘Zine publishing planner’
Personal learning Managing personal learning	• allocate appropriate time and resources and complete tasks within set timeframes	Record of ‘Zine publishing planner’
The Arts Creating and making	• develop a zine that reflects attention to variation, style and effects of text and graphics • manipulate media elements to develop content for a zine	Assessment of layout, design and images
English Reading	• analyse the content, style and audience of two different magazines	Written analysis of features of magazines and zines (in individual student notes)
English Writing	• write feature articles that successfully target audience as proposed in ‘Picture the zine’ • edit articles for accuracy, consistency and clarity	Assessment of articles for appropriate content (engaging and informative) and language
English Speaking and listening	• compare ideas, build on others’ ideas, provide and justify other points of view, and reach conclusions that take account of aspects of an issue	Teacher observation of discussion
Information and Communications Technology ICT for creating	• select appropriate software • develop project plan	Project plan should include: • breakdown of tasks • assignment of tasks • resources • interim timelines
Thinking Processes Reasoning, processing and inquiry	• discriminate between data sources	Analysis of value, quality, purpose and intent of subjective survey versus objective analysis

See the Assessment resource for advice on developing rubrics.