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Good practice in assessment - Scots Language, SCQF Level 5 – Lourdes Secondary School
Introduction
This case study covers Scots Language: Understanding and Communicating Unit, delivered to a combination of S4 and S5 candidates.
Background
This award was offered as part of the wider Scottish Studies Award. For the purposes of this case study we selected the following units: English – Analysis and Evaluation within a Scottish Context (National 5), Media Content with a Scottish Context (National 5), Analysing Media Content with a Scottish Context (National 5), and Scots Language: Understanding and Communicating (SCQF level 5).
We decided on the Scots Language award for a combination of reasons:
- The literacy skills were transferable to the other units in the Scottish Studies award
- The possibility of using Scottish texts for Scots Language dovetailed nicely with the English: Analysis and Evaluation within a Scottish Context (National 5) unit, and, more broadly, would be valuable for candidates who were – either concurrently or in the future – also studying Scottish texts for National 5 English
- It was felt that this introduction to, and discussion of, Scots language and wider cultural issues would be of great interest to our candidates, many of whom speak Scots without being aware of it explicitly.
