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This document describes an achievement standard for assessing students' ability to explain geographic topics at a global scale. It involves describing spatial or temporal patterns of a topic, explaining their causes, and significance for people. Higher levels of achievement include providing more detailed descriptions using geographic concepts, fully explaining causes and insights into impacts. The standard is derived from New Zealand curriculum objectives and relates to geography teaching guides.

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As2 7

This document describes an achievement standard for assessing students' ability to explain geographic topics at a global scale. It involves describing spatial or temporal patterns of a topic, explaining their causes, and significance for people. Higher levels of achievement include providing more detailed descriptions using geographic concepts, fully explaining causes and insights into impacts. The standard is derived from New Zealand curriculum objectives and relates to geography teaching guides.

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AS91246

Number

Version

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Achievement Standard
Subject Reference

Geography 2.7

Title

Explain aspects of a geographic topic at a global scale

Level

Subfield

Social Science Studies

Domain

Geography

Credits

Assessment

Internal

Status

Registered

Status date

17 November 2011

Planned review date

31 December 2014

Date version published

17 November 2011

This achievement standard involves explaining aspects of a geographic topic at a global


scale.
Achievement Criteria
Achievement

Achievement with Merit

Achievement with Excellence

Explain aspects of a
geographic topic at a
global scale.

Explain, in depth, aspects


of a geographic topic at a
global scale.

Explain, comprehensively,
aspects of a geographic
topic at a global scale.

Explanatory Notes
1

This achievement standard is derived from the Level 7 Geography achievement


objectives from the Social Sciences learning area of The New Zealand Curriculum,
Learning Media, Ministry of Education, 2007; and is related to the material in the
Teaching and Learning Guide for Geography, Ministry of Education, 2010 at
http://seniorsecondary.tki.org.nz.

Explain aspects of a geographic topic at a global scale involves:


describing a spatial or temporal pattern of the geographic topic
explaining the cause(s) that contribute to this pattern
explaining the significance of the topic for people.
Explain, in depth, aspects of a geographic topic at a global scale involves:
describing, in detail, a spatial or temporal pattern of the geographic topic using
geographic terminology and concepts
explaining, in detail, the cause(s) that contribute to this pattern
explaining, in detail, the significance of the topic for people.

Number

AS91246

Version

Page 2 of 2

Explain, comprehensively, aspects of a geographic topic at a global scale involves:


fully describing a spatial or temporal pattern of the geographic topic using
geographic terminology and concepts
fully explaining the cause(s) that contribute to this pattern
fully explaining, showing insight, the significance of the topic for people.
3

Aspects of a geographic topic refer to a pattern in the topic, the causes of the pattern,
and the effects of the topic on peoples lives in different parts of the world.
Global refers to regions or nations across different continents or hemispheres.
Pattern refers to a definite spatial or temporal arrangement.
Causes refer to the factors (circumstances that contribute to the pattern) and/or
processes (a sequence of events) that caused the pattern.
Geographic topic refers to a natural and/or cultural topic and/or study which has a
global spatial dimension.

Conditions of Assessment related to this achievement standard can be found at


www.tki.org.nz/e/community/ncea/conditions-assessment.php.

Replacement Information
This achievement standard replaced AS90337.
Quality Assurance
1

Providers and Industry Training Organisations must have been granted consent to
assess by NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against
achievement standards.

Organisations with consent to assess and Industry Training Organisations assessing


against achievement standards must engage with the moderation system that applies
to those achievement standards.
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference

0233

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