Reporting your research: Unit Standard 8812
Teacher Mike Fowler
| Year
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NCEA Level
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Suggested duration
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| 11
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1
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3 weeks
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| Achievement Standard Being Assessed
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Achievement Criteria
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| Unit Standard 8812 version 4: Produce transactional writing in simple forms.
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- 1.1: Writing develops ideas.
- 1.2: Ideas are logically sequenced and supported by relevant details and/or examples.
- 1.3: Conventions of chosen form are observed and appropriate to purpose.
- 1.4: Final product is crafted to publication standard.
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Assessment note
This activity assesses one of the two pieces required for unit standard 8812.
Unit standard 8812 assesses similar outcomes to achievement standard 90053
Produce formal writing [1.2], even though 90053 is externally assessed. Both standards require the same overall standard of writing to gain achievement [1.2] and credit [8812].
Even though the two standards assess similar outcomes, there are some differences in terminology. The term "conventions" is used in performance criteria 1.3 [8812] to mean style and structure. "Conventions" in the formal writing achievement standard refers to grammar, spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
The standard of technical accuracy required in 8812's performance criterion 1.4: " Final product is crafted to publication standard" is identical to achievement level for 1.2 conventions criterion: "use writing conventions without intrusive errors."
Guidelines for use
Students will develop their research reports as pieces of transactional writing.
Conditions
The same conditions for assessment apply when assessing 8812 and the internally assessed writing achievement standard 90052 Produce creative writing [1.1] - or any internally assessed unit or achievement writing standard at any level. Teachers must be satisfied that the work is the student's. Students should complete internally assessed writing work class. If the pieces are to be assessed for summative assessment, teachers should ensure that the extent of teacher input does not compromise assessment validity; in other words, the writing is the student's, not the teacher's.
Teachers may guide students actively through the initial tasks helping them to identify techniques mentioned. Teachers may show how the techniques used in the exemplars can be applied to students' own writing.
As they develop drafts, teachers can advise students that their writing may need further work on ideas, language, structure or accuracy in spelling, punctuation or paragraphing but not correct errors. Students should have access to dictionaries to check their writing. Word processing is acceptable providing it is done under teacher supervision.
Students should have several opportunities during the year to develop their transactional writing skills.
Resource requirements
See The writing workshop
and Features of Text Forms: Reports
.
Possible local adaptation
Where local adaptations are made, teachers and schools should ensure that they have:
- checked that the adapted assessment validly assesses the standard;
- checked the copyright status of any material imported into the assessment resource;
- complied with all internal and external quality assurance requirements.
Teaching and learning activities
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:
Learning task 1
Learning task 2
Student instructions
In this activity you will develop your research report as a piece of transactional writing. You will have already completed the report as part of your work towards the level 1 research achievement standard 90060
Research, organise and present information.
Before you begin writing, you will look at techniques you could use to develop your own writing effectively. Your report will be at least 300 words long.
Assessing against two standards
In this activity, reports based on the Hot Issues assessment task have been used to show how the research report can also be developed for assessment as a piece of transactional writing, in addition to being assessed as a component for the level 1 research achievement standard. This is possible because the transactional writing unit standard assesses different and separate criteria from the research achievement standard.
You will be assessed on
- how well you express and develop your ideas
- how well you organise your material
- your ability to use a writing style that is appropriate to the task
- your accuracy in spelling, punctuation, grammar, and paragraphing.
The research report is one component in the work required for the level 1 research achievement standard 90060 Research, organise and present information. To meet the research achievement standard criteria, you should refer to achievement standard 90060 as well as these research assessment activities
.
Assessment
See the
assessment (RTF 16KB)
which is also linked to the exemplars.
Successful completion of this task will fulfil part of the range statement [one of two pieces] for level 1 unit standard 8812 Produce transactional writing in simple forms.
