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• Contents
  
• Steps to Successfully Complete Training
  
• Marking Your Students’ Work
  
• A Note On Levelling
  
• Links to Tasks

In this section of the MSE web site, you will be able to undertake product marker training for the MSE Technology and Enterprise assessment tasks.
Before marking your students' products, you should complete this training for the appropriate product (see Links to Tasks below).  Please note that you should become familiar with the task described in the relevant Teachers Manual before completing the training. Marking criteria and products are tailored specifically to each task.

Contents

For each task you will find:

• The Marking Guide, in Word or Adobe Acrobat PDF format, for you to download. This guide is also in the relevant Teachers Manual.
• A Training Practice Record Sheet, in Word or Adobe Acrobat PDF format, for you to download to practice scoring the work samples.
• Links to work samples. Each work sample has
  • a colour photo
  • student responses to relevant questions from the student answer booklet (if applicable)
  • a score, with explanatory commentary, for each of the categories of the marking guide

Steps to Successfully Complete Training

1. Read the Product Marking notes in the Marking Guide Section of the relevant Teachers Manual.
2. Have your Marking Guide and Training Practice Record Sheet ready.
3. View a work sample (it does not matter in which order you view the work samples).
4. Use the student responses to relevant questions, where necessary.
5. Using the categories on the Marking Guide, score the work sample using the Training Practice Record Sheet.
6. When you are satisfied with your scoring, view the commentary for each category.
7. Examine and account for any differences. Adjust your scoring where necessary.

Marking Your Students' Work

To achieve and maintain consistency of judgement, refer regularly to the criteria on the marking guide, the work samples that exemplify the criteria, and to the commentaries which explain the relationship between the two. Adhere to this relationship.

A Note On Levelling

When students make a product, they are integrating skills described in the technology process strand and one or more of the content strands. The best estimate of level of achievement on the MSE T&E tasks is therefore obtained from the total score achieved on the whole task. A guide to estimating levels can be found in the Performance Profile section of the relevant Teachers Manual.

Links to Tasks

Year 3 - Information and Systems Task: Action Board

Year 3 - Fabric Materials Task: Money Holder

Year 7 - Food Materials Task: Canteen Fruit

Year 7- Information and Systems Task: Pop-up Card

Year 7 - Rigid Materials Task: Give Again Gifts

Year 10 - Food Materials Task: Tomato Product

Year 10 - Materials Task: Wood or Metal Souvenir