Science Literacy 2006 school release materials - NAP

Teachers can decide whether they want to administer both the objective assessmentand the practical task (as in the National Assessment Program – Science Literacy)or only the objective assessment.A summary of the assessment structure, including the unit topics, the scienceconcept areas and a brief description of the processes being assessed, is provided inTable 2.1.Table 2.1 Objective assessment assessing individual student workQ no123Unit topicsClassification of livingthingsClassification of livingthingsClassification of livingthingsConceptareaLLLLLL4 Water quality monitoring LLItem descriptoridentifies and interprets pattern in a classificationkeyconclusion summarises and explains data in aclassification keyconclusion summarises and explains data in aclassification keyidentifies patterns in science data in the form ofa rule5 Water quality monitoring LL explains the usefulness of having baseline data6 Properties of plastics NPcompares aspects of data in simple supplied tableof results7 Properties of plastics NPsummarises patterns in the data to find commonproperties of plastic8 Properties of plastics NPexplains interactions between properties ofmaterials and their suitability for a particularpurpose9 Properties of plastics NPexplains cause and effect of waste plastics inmarine environment10 Effects of temperature LL makes comparisons between objects or events11 Effects of temperature LL applies the rule by extrapolating or predicting12 Effects of temperature NPdescribes cause and effect relationships that havebeen reported on13 Effects of temperature LL applies the rule by extrapolating or predicting14 Fibre forensics NPdescribes difference between objects (natural andsynthetic fibres)15 Fibre forensics NPdescribes relationships between individual events(presence of fibre as evidence for match)161718192021Natural events anddisastersNatural events anddisastersNatural events anddisastersNative grasslands and thestriped legless lizardNative grasslands and thestriped legless lizardNative grasslands and thestriped legless lizardEBEBEBLLLLLL22 Energy transfer EC23 Energy transfer ECidentifies and summarises patterns in data in theform of a ruledescribes relationships between individual events(including cause and effect relationships) thathave been experienced or reportedidentifies and summarises patterns in data in theform of a ruledescribes relationships between individual events(including cause and effect relationships) thathave been experienced or reportedidentifies pattern in science datawhen provided with an experimental designinvolving multiple variables, can identify thequestions being investigatedexplains changes to objects in terms of abstractscience concept (energy source)explains changes to objects in terms of abstractscience concept (energy transfer)