Baseline assessment learner response

Baseline assessment learner response

Create a new blog post called 'Y13 baseline assessment learner response' and complete the following tasks:

1) Type up your feedback in full (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential)

WWW - This is a useful benchmark at the start of yr13 on what we need to work on, You clearly have some knowledge of CSPs and theory but need to work on some key areas.

EBI - Question focus: work on topic sentences that use the key words from the question (Q2 - 'how useful' etc.)
Revise effects theories and evaluate them. 
Q3 is about planning and developing an argument. Also need more specific reference to stats and CSPs.  

2) Focusing on the BBC Life Hacks question, write three ways it helps to fulfil the BBC's mission statement that you didn't include in your original assessment answer. Use the mark scheme for ideas.

- informs listeners about topics and issues they may be facing themselves.
- they offer educational content by addressing issues that listeners may potentially not know much about. 
- they also play music and talk about topics their listeners are interested in for entertainment. 

3) Question two asked you how useful media effects theories are in understanding the audience response to War of the Worlds. Complete the following:

• Gerbner's Cultivation theory: useful or not useful? Why? very useful in understanding how American radio’s recent convention in the 1930s of ‘breaking news’ (‘We interrupt this broadcast to bring you…’) may have made audiences more likely to believe the fictional radio play was real.
• Frankfurt School's Hypodermic Needle model: useful or not useful? Why? The Frankfurt School’s hypodermic needle theory is arguably supported by the reported audience panic following the War of the Worlds broadcast in 1938. However it is not useful; considering media audience as 'empty vessels'
• Stuart Hall's Reception theory: useful or not useful? Why?  Stuart Hall’s reception theory is arguably more useful than traditional effects theories in analysing audience reaction – some would have believed it (preferred reading?), other sections of the audiences would have challenged or rejected it entirely.

4) Write a full essay plan for the 25-mark Magazines question. The mark scheme contains plenty of ideas you can use here. Your plan should include notes/bullet points addressing the following:

• Introduction: one sentence answering the original question and laying out your argument clearly.
• Paragraph 1 content: men's health; media audience such as audience pleasures, hyper-masculinity, the structure to attract audience and so on...
• Paragraph 2 content: men's health; media industries such as rise in new/digital media, difference in what digital platforms have to offer... 
• Paragraph 3 content: oh comely; media audience - trying to attract a different type of audience; ones that wouldn't usually by a typical women's magazine. 
• Paragraph 4 content: oh comely; media industries how they reflect changing media marketplace, how they have a unique target audience. 
• Paragraph 5 content: compare both magazines, see any similarities or differences and what it shows about each magazine and their target audience. 
• Conclusion: sum up your argument a final time in one sentence

5) Finally, identify three key skills/topics you want to work on in A Level Media this year before the final exams in June.

- Memorising theories 

- Structuring exams questions 

- Linking different theories with case studies