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The focus in this
fourth strand of the health and physical education curriculum is on
the interdependence of students, their communities, and the environment.
The stated aim is for students to participate in creating healthy communities
and environments by taking responsible and critical action.
This is not an easy area in which to create assessment tasks that can
stand by themselves, separate from class programmes and activities and
children’s life experiences. Four tasks were developed and used
in 2002. Three of these were identical for year 4 and year 8 students,
and the other was administered only to year 8 students. Two are released
tasks (fully described with data for 2002 only), and two are link tasks
(to be used again in 2006, so only partially described here).
The tasks are presented in two sections: released tasks and then link
tasks. No trend tasks were available. Within each section, tasks administered
to both year 4 and year 8 students are presented first, followed by
tasks administered only to year 8 students.
Averaged across 8 task components administered to both year 4 and year
8 students, 7 percent more year 8 than year 4 students succeeded with
these components. Year 8 students performed better on six components,
and worse on just one.
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