Clarification details
Updated December 2017. The ‘Assessment evidence’ section been updated to reflect the latest version of the Conditions of Assessment.
Extracts from two or more texts must be studied and referred to for attainment of credit for this standard.
The TKI assessment resources instruct students to perform a scene. This may not be necessary to generate sufficient and/or relevant evidence. If students wish to perform a scene, a ‘workshop’ context is recommended. They might stop and start the scene to provide information on the ideas, themes etc. intended by the playwright.
The purpose of clarifications
We create clarification documents to help people understand the current requirements of achievement standards. Clarifications do not introduce new criteria, change the intent of the standard, or change what we expect from assessment.
These documents unpack and explain the language and intent of the standard so people interpret and apply the standard consistently. We provide examples or guidance as illustrations only. They are not prescriptions or requirements.
For official requirements, always refer to the current version of the achievement standard as published by NZQA.
Assessment evidence
The Conditions of Assessment document no longer indicate that, ‘evidence is to be based on a drama presentation’.
When a dramatic approach is chosen as the mode for evidence, it may involve a range of dramatic contexts such as:
- ‘in role’ presentations
- hot seating
- seminars
- scene analysis through ‘workshop performance’
The portfolio evidence (which may or may not be written) does provide the increment between grades.
‘Perceptive’ at Excellence
Insightful connections between the play, the wider world and the playwright, would likely involve reference to all four ‘examine’ points as outlined below (Explanatory Note 2):
- the social and/or historical world of the playwright as it relates to the chosen texts
- the common and/or contrasting ideas and concerns evident in the plays
- the style, structure and purpose of the plays
- the performance space and its influence on the plays.
Together with these points, there would need to be evidence of a degree of personal conviction, fine detail and fresh observation.