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All rights reserved.   | |\n\n| Outline   |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| • Your evaluation experiences  \u003Cbr>• What is‘evaluation’?  \u003Cbr>• Evaluation and textual significance   |  |  |\n| 3   | Copyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.   | |\n\n\n| Why evaluation?   |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| The mean mark on Q4 ranges from about 6.5/20 (November 2021) as thelowest average, up to 9.7/20 as the highest (June 2019) .   |  |  |\n| 4   | Copyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.   | |\n\n\n| What is evaluation?   |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Exhibit A:  \u003Cbr>AO4: Evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textualreferences.  \u003Cbr>Exhibit B: Level 3 descriptors:  \u003Cbr>• shows clear and relevant evaluation  \u003Cbr>• evaluates clearly the effect(s) on the reader  \u003Cbr>• shows clear understanding of writer’s methods  \u003Cbr>• selects a range of relevant textual references  \u003Cbr>• makes a clear and relevant response to the focus of the statement.   |  |  |\n| 5   | Copyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.   | |\n\n\n| What is evaluation?   |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Exhibit C:  \u003Cbr>‘Evaluation of a writer’s choice of vocabulary, form, grammatical and structuralfeatures: explaining and illustrating how vocabulary and grammar contribute toeffectiveness and impact, using linguistic and literary terminology accurately todo so and paying attention to detail; analysing and evaluating how form andstructure contribute to the effectiveness and impact of a text.’  \u003Cbr>Ofqual © Crown Copyright 2015. Open Government Licence v3.0   |  |  |\n| 6   | Copyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.   | |\n\n\n| The evaluation question: Q4 Paper 1, November 2021   |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Focus this part of your answer on the second part of the source, from line 20to the end.  \u003Cbr>A student said, ‘From the moment he arrives at Master’s compound, the writerportrays Ugwu’s feelings of pure excitement, but by the end it seems that he  \u003Cbr>may be very disappointed.’To what extent do you agree?In your response, you could:  \u003Cbr>• consider your own impressions of Ugwu’s feelings  \u003Cbr>• evaluate how the writer describes Ugwu’s feelings by the end  \u003Cbr>• support your response with references to the text.   |  |  |\n| 7   | Copyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.   | |\n\n\n| Activity one: experiences of evaluation   |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| • When do you teach the skills of critical evaluation?  \u003Cbr>• How do you teach these skills?  \u003Cbr>• When do your students practise responding to previously unseen literarytexts?   |  |  |\n| 8   | Copyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.   | |\n\n# Is evaluation a literature essay?\n\n9  \nCopyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.  \n| Evaluation and literary criticism   |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| ‘Literature is an effective tool for engaging students in critical thinking.Teaching children to analyse and evaluate literary texts appropriate to theirage and interests, we can help them develop critical thinking skills. Thisinvolves seeing relationships between events, drawing inferences, analysingevents, synthesising evidence and evaluating both the content of a text andthe language used to the express ideas contained within it.’  \u003Cbr>Unit 5: Facilitating Critical Thinking through Literature by Open Resources for English Language Teaching   |  |  |\n| 10   | Copyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.   | |\n\n# AQA Stretch and Challenge Materials (2019): Gettingto Grades 8 and 9\n\nEvaluation is ...  \nPersonal andsubjective  \nEvidence based  \nExplains/analyses  \nInterpretative,qualitative andphilosophical  \nDo you agree with the statement? Towhat extent?  \nWhy do you agree/disagree? What ishappening in the text to make you thinkthis","cbCaitGBCoGCHetQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitGBCoGCHetQ","pdf",1655054,17,"English","# Outline\n## Your evaluation experiences\n## What is ‘evaluation’?\n## Evaluation and textual significance\n# Why evaluation?\n# What is evaluation?\n## AO4 evaluate texts critically\n## Level 3 descriptors\n# The evaluation question: Q4 Paper 1, November 2021\n# Activity one: experiences of evaluation\n# Is evaluation a literature essay?\n## Evaluation and literary criticism\n# AQA Stretch and Challenge Materials (2019): Getting to Grades 8 and 9\n## Evaluation is ...\n# Activity two: evaluation and literature\n# Evaluation and textual ‘significance’","[{\"question\":\"What does AQA mean by ‘evaluation’ in GCSE responses?\",\"answer\":\"Evaluation means evaluating texts critically using appropriate evidence and textual references. 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