Community and Family Studies 2015 HSC exam pack

Candidates showed strength in these areas:

• explaining how sampling contributes to reliable and valid data (Q21a)
• knowledge of strategies that ensure privacy (Q21b)
• understanding the relationship between access to childcare services and wellbeing for first-time parents (Q22)
• providing detailed information about both questionnaires and case studies (Q23)
• identifying the preparations that a carer must undertake (Q24)
• identifying the characteristics of people with disabilities and explaining how these characteristics affect their access to services (Q25)
• identifying examples of informal support and how they assist the parent(s) (Q26)
• outlining community attitudes towards various groups (Q27)
• identifying equity issues that are of concern for various groups (Q28)
• describing government policy and legislation that are relevant to various groups (Q28).

Candidates need to improve in these areas:

• understanding specific types of sampling and how they relate to reliability and validity (Q21a)
• differentiating between respect and privacy (Q21b)
• understanding how respect can be ensured in a research study (Q21b)
• explaining how access to childcare services improves wellbeing for first-time parents (Q22)
• understanding the importance of using two research methodologies to give depth, reliability and validity to research findings (Q23)
• using correct syllabus terminology (Q24, Q25 and Q26)
• explaining how informal support assists parents to meet their parental responsibilities (Q26)
• establishing the links between informal support and parental responsibilities, for example, duty of care, discipline and setting limits (Q26)
• making a judgement about the attempts to improve community attitudes towards various groups and the impact on the groups’ wellbeing (Q27).

Question 29

Candidates showed strength in these areas:

• demonstrating knowledge and understanding of how individuals are protected by legislation (part a)
• demonstrating understanding of assisted reproductive technology and relevant legislation (part b)
• demonstrating understanding of the role of legislation in supporting the welfare of children and supporting the response with examples (part c)
• including links to wellbeing (part c).

Candidates need to improve in these areas:

• supporting their response with an example (part a)
• providing a detailed understanding of how the current legislation supports access to assisted reproductive technology (part b)
• providing a clear link between the legislation and how it supports adults and families (part b)
• distinguishing between child protection legislation and safety legislation (part c)
• providing relevant examples for both child protection legislation and safety legislation (part c)
• providing a judgement about the effectiveness of child protection legislation in supporting the welfare of children (part c)
• providing a judgement on the effectiveness of safety legislation in supporting the welfare of children (part c).

Question 30

Candidates showed strength in these areas:

• providing examples of types of technology (part a)
• linking technological developments to the economic benefits they provide to individuals (part a)
• understanding how age can affect access and acceptance to technology (part b)
• providing positive and negative effects of technologies on the family (part c).

Candidates need to improve in these areas:

• understanding how education can affect an individual’s access to and acceptance of technology (part b)
• using relevant examples to support their response (part b)
• providing links between the wellbeing of families and the use of technology (part c)
• using appropriate terminology to demonstrate understanding of the course content (part c).

Question 31

Candidates showed strength in these areas:

• understanding personal management skills relevant to the workplace (part a)
• demonstrating knowledge of labour force participation (part b)
• making links between labour force participation and lifespan (part b)
• demonstrating knowledge of workplace structures, rights and responsibilities (part c)
• providing examples relevant to work structures, rights and responsibilities (part c)
• providing a judgement about how workplace structures support employees’ rights and responsibilities (part c).

Candidates need to improve in these areas:

• outlining a range of personal management skills required by youth in the workplace (part a)
• providing greater detail about how labour force participation varies across the lifespan (part b)
• demonstrating an understanding about the effectiveness of structures that support employees’ rights and responsibilities within the workplace (part c)
• providing a clear link to the impact on the wellbeing of employees, including specific factors of wellbeing (part c)
• using specific syllabus terminology (part c).