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Essential English | Stage 2 | Planning to Teach | Subject Operational Information | 2020

Subject operational information

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Stage 2 Essential English

These web pages connect schools and teachers to information on procedures relating to final moderation and external assessment requirements. Key dates, including dates for the submission of results, are also provided.

Stage 2 Essential English is a 20-credit subject.

The learning and assessment requirements for this subject are set out in the subject outline.

Refer to Learning and assessment plans for information on developing and approving Stage 2 Essential English LAPs.

Online moderation and marking

School assessment materials for Stage 2 Essential English will be submitted for online moderation using school assessment results sheets in Schools Online.

External assessment materials for Stage 2 Essential English will be submitted for online marking using external assessment results sheets in Schools Online.

 

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Key dates

For a simplified list of key operational dates, see the Essential English calendar.

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School assessment component

Teachers assess the evidence of student learning for:

  • Assessment Type 1: Responding to Texts
  • Assessment Type 2: Creating Texts.

The SACE Board quality assures the school assessment results through final moderation.

Refer to SACE Assessment and Reporting Guidelines [PDF 290KB] and SACE Stage 2 Moderation Overview [DOC 33KB] for information about the policy context and procedures.

Moderation sample selection

Teachers select the moderation sample of school-assessed materials to submit to the SACE Board.

Refer to Moderation sample selection, which includes FAQs and an instructional video.

Submitting school assessment materials for final moderation

School assessment materials for Stage 2 Essential English will be submitted using school assessment results sheets in Schools Online.

For more information see Online submission of materials.

See 'Packaging instructions' in Materials collection and online submission — Stage 2 final moderation (Information sheet 50).

Supervision and verification

Refer to the information in Supervision and Verification of Students' Work: Policy and Procedures [DOC 90KB] on the use of the record sheet [DOC 164KB] to record and authenticate each student's work. If used, these sheets are to be kept in the school until the end of the clerical check period.

A teacher who is unable to verify that the work is the student's own must initiate a breach of rules action through the school's SACE/NTCET coordinator.

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External assessment component

Students undertake one external assessment, consisting of an independent language study. The focus of study is an understanding of the use of spoken, non-verbal, visual, and/or written language by people in a chosen context beyond the classroom.

The language study should be a maximum of 1500 words if written or 9 minutes if presented in oral form, or the equivalent in multimodal form.

Refer to the subject outline for details of the language study requirements.

Submitting materials for external assessment

External assessment materials for Stage 2 Essential English will be submitted using external assessment results sheets in Schools Online.

For more information see Online submission of materials.

Assessment Type 3: Language Study

This assessment type is categorised as an investigation for operational purposes.

Investigation materials for Essential English are submitted online.

The teacher assesses each student's language study and then submits all language studies for the class to the SACE Board for external assessment.

Supervision and verification

Refer to Supervision and Verification of Students' Work: Policy and Procedures [DOC 90KB]. Teachers must use the record sheet [DOC 164KB] to record and authenticate each student's work. These sheets are to be kept in the school until the end of the clerical check period.

A teacher who is unable to verify that a language study, or part of a language study, is the student's own work must submit a completed report of potential breach of rules [DOC 108KB] to the SACE Board, through the school's SACE/NTCET coordinator.

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