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Questions/instructions:
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responses 2006 ('02) |
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y8
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| 1. What are the important differences between each of the suns? prompt: What is different about how the sun is shown in these two pictures? |
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| Picture 1: | doesn’t look like a real
sun/animated/cartoon-like |
15 (16) |
23 (28) |
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shows sun is a person/has a face |
50 (61) |
45 (58) |
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sun looks unhappy/sad/miserable |
4 (10) |
10 (19) |
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sun looks tired/exhausted |
2 (4) |
5 (7) |
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sun uses Mäori patterns
(any reference to design) |
61 (67) |
51 (55) |
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sun looks relatively easy to capture/not
many pulling it down |
10 (9) |
15 (19) |
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sun looks small/far away |
26 (36) |
24 (32) |
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| Picture 2: | sun looks large, close up |
40 (50) |
43 (45) |
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sun looks very hot and fiery |
37 (43) |
44 (49) |
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looks like a real sun (not has no face) |
36 (28) |
41 (49) |
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sun looks difficult to capture |
9 (9) |
16 (22) |
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sun looks powerful/fierce/dangerous/furious/aggressive |
3 (5) |
12 (20) |
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| 2. Now try to explain to me how the way the sun is drawn could change how the story might be told. | |||||||||||
not marked |
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Total
score: |
8–12 |
0 (0) |
1 (2) |
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6–7 |
4 (9) |
7 (17) |
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4–5 |
27 (37) |
32 (39) |
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2–3 |
56 (44) |
50 (37) |
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0–1 |
13 (10) |
10 (5) |
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| Subgroup Analysis: |
Year 4 |
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Year 8 |
| Commentary: |
| This task explored how students interpret the impact of symbolic representations. As with four years ago, this proved to be a challenging task. The students in both year 4 and year 8 in 2006 performed somewhat less well than did the students in 2002. There were no gender differences. There were minor differences among the Pakeha, Mäori and Pasifika students. |
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