TAG, 23/09/15

*Overall Academic
*HATL
*Narrative Comment

Narrative Comments

• Fundamentally formative rather than summative
• Growth
• Progress
• HATLs
• Explaining thoroughly the overall mark

Some parameters

• Positive and professional (3rd person, grammatically accurate, etc.)
• Substantive with a focus on strengths and areas for improvement for both OA and HATL
• Specific, individualized and evidence-based
• Congruence with the achievement level
• 1000 characters maximum
• Peer-edited

Some parameters

• Positive and professional (3rd person, grammatically accurate, etc.)
• Substantive with a focus on strengths and areas for improvement for both OA and HATL
• Specific, individualized and evidence-based
• Congruence with the achievement level
• 1000 characters maximum
• Peer-edited

ACTIVITY #1
In groups, consider:

*Effectiveness in attending to parameters

Activity #2
Write one comment for a high achiever and one comment for a low achiever based on parameters. Share for feedback within your group.


*NB: collective communication

(what does this communicate about our collective professionalism?)

Narrative Comments

• Fundamentally formative rather than summative
• Growth
• Progress
• HATLs
• Explaining thoroughly the overall mark

Some parameters

• Positive and professional (3rd person, grammatically accurate, etc.)
• Substantive with a focus on strengths and areas for improvement for both OA and HATL
• Specific, individualized and evidence-based
• Congruence with the achievement level
• 1000 characters maximum
• Peer-edited

Derivation of grades

Activity

TIME FACTOR
*Comments (peer-edited via collaborative planning groups by Wednesday, 07 October)
* Grades (frozen on Monday, 19 October)

HATl