Wednesday, 23 September 2015

Crowdsourced specification guide task

Crowd-sourced specification guide

For this task, you will work in small teams in your own time to put together a guide to what is currently available for a particular level for a particular subject. 

The options are for the groups of three:

A level Media Studies (AQA, OCR, WJEC)- Emma, Chris, Simone
GCSE Media Studies (AQA, OCR, WJEC)- Bex, Tammana, Rhocea
A level Film Studies (WJEC and OCR)- Rime, Danielle, Sonal

The options for the pairs are:

GCSE Film Studies (WJEC)- Reece, David
BTEC and Cambridge Technicals in Media (Level 2, Pearson and OCR)- Neil, Dan

You will need to find the current specifications and examples of exam papers from the exam board websites


What you need to find out

What’s on offer across the exam boards?
How many students complete the course for each board each year?
What are the differences between the specifications?
What are the exams like?
What is the coursework like?
What philosophy seems to underlie each specification?
What do teachers think of them?
What do you see as the strengths and weaknesses of each?

Most of this research can be done by looking online, but you may wish to contact people for views- it’s up to you!

For GCSE and A level, you will also need to find out what the implications are for the subject and level as a result of the subject criteria proposals. These can be found here:


You might find these sites useful for general data:

There is also a critique by David Buckingham on the MEA site from 2014:


You may collate and present your findings in any way you wish- it could be a document for circulation, a video, a PowerPoint/Keynote, a Prezi, a Wiki, a blogpost- whatever you like! But it must be ready to share by 9am next Tuesday (29th) and everyone in the group must contribute (roughly) equally.


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