Assessment Type 1: Historical Skills (50%)

Students complete five 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 apply their historical literacy skills, using historical sources, interpreting historical texts, and analysing and synthesising evidence to support and develop a reasoned argument on historical questions.

Two assessments must be based on the topic from ‘Modern Nations’ and three assessments must be based on the topic from ‘The World since 1945’.

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.

Together, the five assessments comprise a maximum of 5000 words if written, or the equivalent in oral or multimodal form, where six minutes is equivalent to 1000 words.

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.