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International GCSE assessment grid – you should use this assessment grid to assess all student work for both components and all titles
Assessment Mark Band 1 Mark Band 2 Mark Band 3 Mark Band 4 Mark Band 5 Mark Band 6
Objectives LIMITED ABILITY BASIC ABILITY EMERGING COMPETENT ABILITY COMPETENT AND CONSISTENT ABILITY CONFIDENT AND ASSURED ABILITY EXCEPTIONAL ABILITY
Insufficient knowledge, understanding Some knowledge, understanding and Knowledge, understanding and skills are Knowledge, understanding and skills are secure and Knowledge, understanding and skills are Knowledge, understanding and skills are in-
and skills; minimal evidence or, and lack skills demonstrated but they are generally adequate but safe cohesive throughout effective and focused throughout depth, perceptive and accomplished throughout
of structure in, the development and simplistic and deliberate; some
recording of ideas structure and repetition in the
development and recording of ideas

Just Mostly Fully Just Mostly Fully Just Mostly Fully Just Mostly Fully Just Mostly Fully Just Mostly Fully

AO1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

Develop ideas • Development of ideas through • Development of ideas through • Development of ideas through • Development of ideas through Development of • Development of ideas through investigations • Development of ideas through investigations
through investigations shows limited ability. investigations shows basic ability. investigations shows emerging ideas through investigations shows competent and shows confident and assured ability. shows exceptional ability.
• The investigation process shows • The investigation process shows competence. consistent ability. • The investigation process shows confident • The investigation process shows exceptional
investigations,
demonstrating critical
limited critical understanding of the basic critical understanding of the • The investigation process shows emerging • The investigation process shows competent and and assured critical understanding of the critical understanding of the context of own
context of own ideas and the sources context of own ideas and the competent critical understanding of the consistent critical understanding of the context of context of own ideas and the sources that ideas and the sources that have informed
understanding of
that have informed them. sources that have informed them. context of own ideas and the sources that own ideas and the sources that have informed have informed them. them.
sources
• Limited attempts are made to analyse • Basic understanding of some issues have informed them. them. • Shows confident and assured understanding • Exceptional analysis and
and make connections. when analysing and making • Emerging competent consideration of • Competent and consistent judgements shown of complex issues, heightened analysis, connections.
connections. issues shown when analysing and when analysing and making connections. informed connections.
making connections.

AO2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

Refine work by • Limited ability to refine work, driven by • Basic ability to refine work, driven • Emerging competent ability to refine work, • Competent and consistent ability to refine work, • Confident and assured ability to refine work, • Exceptional ability to refine work,
exploring ideas, insights gained through exploration of ideas by insights gained through driven by insights gained through driven by insights gained through exploration of driven by insights gained through exploration informed by insights gained through
and reflection. Ideas are consolidated too exploration of ideas and reflection. exploration of ideas and reflection. ideas and reflection. of ideas and reflection. exploring and reflecting on ideas.
selecting and
early and not fully realised. • Basic ability to explore ideas • •
experimenting with • Emerging competent ability to explore • Competent and consistent ability to explore ideas Confident and assured and assured ability to Exceptional ability to explore ideas
• Limited ability toexplore ideas through through a process of ideas through a process of experimentation through a process of experimentation and review. explore ideas through a process of through a process of experimentation
appropriate media,
a process of experimentation and experimentation and review. and review. experimentation and review. and review.
materials, review.
• Competent and consistent ability to select and
• Basic ability to select and • Emerging competent ability to select and • Confident and assured ability to select and • Exceptional ability to select and experiment
techniques and experiment with media, materials, techniques
• Limited ability to select and experiment with media, experiment with media, materials, and processes appropriate to personal experiment with media, materials, techniques with media, materials, techniques and
processes experiment with media, materials, materials, techniques and techniques and processes appropriate to and processes appropriate to personal processes appropriate to personal intentions.
intentions.
techniques and processes processes appropriate to personal intentions. intentions.
appropriate to personal intentions. personal intentions.

AO3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

Record ideas, • Limited ability to record ideas, • Basic ability to record ideas, • Emerging competent ability to record • Competent and consistent ability to record ideas, • Confident and assured ability to record ideas, • Exceptional ability to record ideas,
observations and observations and insights related to observations and insights related to ideas, observations and insights related to observations and insights related to personal observations and insights related to personal observations and insights related to personal
personal work and the work of others personal work and the work of personal work and the work of others work and the work of others through visual and work and the work of others through visual and work and the work of others through visual
insights relevant to
through visual and other methods. others through visual and other through visual and other methods. other methods. other methods. and other methods.
intentions as work
methods. • • •
progresses • Limited ability to record Emerging competent ability to record
• Competent and consistent ability to record Confident and assured ability to record Exceptional ability to record relevant to
relevant to intentions. • Basic ability to record relevant to relevant to intentions.
relevant to intentions. relevant to intentions. intentions.
intentions. • Emerging competent use of skills and
• Limited use of skills and techniques • Competent and consistent command of skills and • Confident and assured use of skills and • Exceptional use of skills and techniques while
while recording from observation, • Basic use of skills and techniques techniques while recording from techniques while recording from observation, recording from observation, experience and
techniques while recording from observation,
experience and ideas. while recording from observation, observation, experience and ideas. experience and ideas. ideas.
experience and ideas.
experience and ideas.

AO4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

Present a personal and • Limited ability to produce a • Basic ability to produce a personal
• Emerging competent ability to produce a
• Competent and consistent ability to produce a • Confident and assured ability to produce a • Exceptional ability to produce a personal and
meaningful response personal and meaningful response. and meaningful response with a personal and meaningful response. personal and meaningful response meaningful response.
personal and meaningful response.
that realises intentions tendency to repeat ideas.
• Limited ability to realise
• Emerging competent • Competent and consistent ability to realise • Confident and assured ability to realise • Exceptional ability to realise intentions.
and demonstrates
understanding of visual
intentions. • Basic ability to realise understanding to realise intentions. intentions • Realisations demonstrate exceptional
• Realisations demonstrate limited intentions.
language intentions. • Realisations demonstrate competent and consistent • Realisations demonstrate confident and assured understanding of visual language through
understanding of visual language • Realisations demonstrate basic
• Realisations demonstrate emerging understanding of visual language through understanding of visual language through application of formal elements.
through application of formal elements. understanding of visual language application of formal elements. Demonstrates application of formal elements. Demonstrates
competent understanding of visual
Little appreciation of aesthetic through application of formal imaginative personal style. independence and exciting personal style.
language through application of formal
consideration in personal style. elements. A lack of technical elements. Demonstrates methodical
competency frustrates personal style.
personal style.

Recording of marks for all International GCSE work Total marks out of 72
Component AO1 marks: indicate a mark out of 18 AO2 marks: indicate a mark out of 18 AO3 marks: indicate a mark out of 18 AO4 marks: indicate a mark out of 18 for each component
Component 1 Personal Portfolio Total COMPONENT 1
AO1 mark AO2 mark AO3 mark AO4 mark
Component 2 Externally Set Total COMPONENT 2
Assignment AO1 mark AO2 mark AO3 mark AO4 mark

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