ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT
Selecting relevant, meaningful evidence
Assessment Criteria and What A Good One Looks Like
Below you will find the Skill Check assessment criteria for this skill, and underneath you will find an example of what a good one looks like, with a brief explanation of how it fits the criteria.
Assessment Criteria for Selecting relevant, meaningful evidence
minus
any of these things
No evidence written down
Only poor evidence written down, which would make for poor analysis
All the evidence written down is too long to use in a quotation (more than about 10 words)
equals (just) to plus (secure)
all of these things
All the evidence written down is relevant to the point and allows for inferences to be made, or [for Year 8 onwards] methods to be analysed
At least one piece of evidence is of an acceptable length (no more than about 10 words)
star
all of these things
All the + criteria
All the evidence is of a reasonable length for embedding
[For year 8 onwards] There must be at least one and ideally several methods to analyse across the two pieces
At least one piece of evidence is one of the best choices in the extract
What a good one looks like
Example task
The following extract is the opening of ‘1984’ by George Orwell.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.
The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. It was part of the economy drive in preparation for Hate Week. The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way.
Imagine you were writing a PEAEA paragraph with the following point: At the start of the novel Orwell presents the world as run-down and miserable.Which quotations from this extract would you include in each bit of Evidence? Write ‘1’ and ‘2’ in the margin, and next to each number write the quotation(s) which would be included in that bit of Evidence.
Example response
“escape the vile wind”
“boiled cabbage and old rag mats”
Notes on this response
Quotations are short and ideal for embedding in a context setting sentence
Quotations are in chronological order in the passage
Both are relevant to the point about how the world is run-down (one idea) and miserable (another related idea)
Both allow for inferences to be made about the world
[For Year 8 onwards] the first piece of evidence allows for methods to be analysed (both the verb ‘escape’ and the connotations of ‘vile’ which create a kind of personification of the wind.