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World Class Exams – Syllabus Development

Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE )
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ANIMATION AND GAME DESIGN The mark scheme for the assessment tasks for both units
At a meeting held 27–29 October 2020, the Review was also revised to eliminate irrelevant descriptors, adjust
Committee for CAPE® Animation and Game Design analysed the weighting and enhance alignment with the requirements
stakeholders’ comments and concerns as expressed in of the task. This will provide greater guidance to users and
questionnaires, interviews and reports, evaluated candidates’ increase the reliability of scoring. The Suggested Teaching and
performance in the examinations and proposed amendments Learning Activities and the list of resources were also revised
to the syllabus and examinations in light of their comments, to provide improved guidance and support for the delivery
concerns, students’ performance as well as the Council’s of the syllabus, enhance opportunities for developing critical
policy requirements. Consequently, they revised all aspects cognitive and twenty-first century skills and generally enhance
of the syllabus to enhance the components and to ensure the experience of the users.
compliance with the policies of the Council.
The Review Committee also conceptualised the outline for
As such, the Rationale was revised to ensure that it was a Paper 032, the Alternative to the Paper 031, the SBA, to
compliant with the policy, philosophical, political and facilitate the inclusion of the out-of-school population. The
psychological principles embraced by the Council. The Aims following description would obtain:
and General Objectives were revised to ensure alignment with
the focus of the Rationale, while the Specific Objectives and Paper 032: A practical examination assessing achievement
Content were revised to ensure they appropriately delineated in all three modules. Candidates will be required to apply
the breadth and depth of content coverage currency and design skills in the creation of products based on a given
relevance for each Module. scenario and other stimulus material.

Adjustments were made to the cognitive demand of some The duration will be two hours and it will value 75 marks or 60
Specific Objectives, reordering of the sequence of others, the per cent of the total assessment for the syllabus.
removal of a few and the addition of new Specific Objectives.
Additionally, adjustments were made to the Content of the The Review Committee also ensured the alignment of the
syllabus to effectively delineate the requirements, enhance the syllabus with the relevant assessment policies of the Council.
specificity and provide better guidance for the facilitators and For example, the following statement was included in the
learners. These changes were deemed necessary to improve relevant section of the syllabus to encourage the use of
the scope and sequence and the currency and relevance of groups:
the syllabus.
…the use of group work is encouraged in the School-
For the Assessment component, the Review Committee Based Assessment in order to facilitate the development
agreed that for the School-Based Assessment for Unit 1, the of collaborative skills among candidates. As such, groups
weighting for the critical analysis task will be reduced from of a maximum of five candidates are encouraged.’
60 to 30 while the weighting for the Production Bible will be
increased from 60 to 90 to reflect a greater emphasis on the
practical component of the assessment.

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