Year 5
Humanities and Social Sciences Support Materials
Assessment Principle 1
Assessment should be an integral part of Teaching and Learning
Economics and Business snapshot: Resources quiz
Humanities and Social Sciences/Knowledge and understanding/Economics and Business/Wants, resources and choices and Skills/Questioning and researching
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Resources can be natural (e.g. oil), human (e.g. workers), or capital (e.g. machinery) and how these are used to make goods and services to satisfy the needs and wants of present and future generations Identify current understandings, consider possible misconceptions and identify personal views on a topic (e.g. KWL chart, concept map) |
Nature of the assessment
Quiz
Purposes of the assessment
To determine student understanding of key concepts prior to beginning the teaching and learning. This will enable the teacher to modify teaching to accommodate the needs of all students.
Stage in the Teaching sequence
Beginning of the teaching cycle – formative assessment
Assessment task
Students were organised into multi-ability groups.
The quiz consisted of a variety of questions to test students’ prior knowledge of resources. The questions checked students’ understanding of relevant vocabulary, their ability to identify needs and wants, and their knowledge of different resources.
Assessment process
At the completion of the quiz, and then at the end of the unit of work, the students completed a KWL chart (what I already know, what I wonder and what I learnt) as a form of self-assessment.
The teacher identified misconceptions and misunderstandings from the quiz responses and subsequent classroom discussion.
Using the information
The teacher used the quiz to inform the ‘pitch’ of the lessons and to develop a more targeted teaching program around the conceptual understanding and skills.