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Home Economics - annotated exemplars level 1 AS90958

Demonstrate understanding of how cultural practices influence eating patterns in New Zealand (1.3)

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Low Excellence

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Student 1 (PDF, 55KB)

For Excellence, the student needs to demonstrate comprehensive understanding of how cultural practices influence eating patterns in New Zealand.

This involves considering how and why the cultural practices have been adapted to suit a New Zealand lifestyle, e.g. health awareness, time and money constraints.

The student considers how and why Italian cultural practices have been adapted when preparing, cooking and serving risotto to suit a New Zealand lifestyle. The details of equipment and ingredients (1) are linked to the student’s personal experience of preparing and tasting authentic Italian risotto. This contributes to an understanding of the need to have the skills and experience to adapt risotto in New Zealand (2).

For a more secure Excellence, the student would need to include more detail when considering how and why the cultural practices have been adapted to suit a New Zealand lifestyle, e.g. the influence of well-known chefs through their books and TV shows, and the use of seasonal produce in New Zealand when making risotto at home (3).

High Merit

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Student response
Student 2 (PDF, 55KB)

For Merit, the student needs to demonstrate in-depth understanding of how cultural practices influence eating patterns in New Zealand.

This involves giving reasons and relating them to the given examples.

The student gives reasons and relates them to adaptations when preparing, cooking and serving risotto. Some links are made to an understanding of the student’s own personal experience of an authentic risotto, and the time involved in its preparation (3).

The reasons for adaptations are related to changes over time, the development of convenience foods and changing family lifestyles (1). The reasons for why ingredients have been substituted are explained in relation to availability in New Zealand (2).

To reach Excellence, the student would need to include more detail when considering how and why the cultural practices have been adapted, e.g. how and why the student’s own personal knowledge of authentic risotto, Italian enthusiasm and time for food preparation (3) have resulted in adaptations being made to risotto to suit a New Zealand lifestyle.

Low Merit

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Student response
Student 3 (PDF, 54KB)

For Merit, the student needs to demonstrate in-depth understanding of how cultural practices influence eating patterns in New Zealand.

This involves giving reasons and relating them to the given examples.

The student gives reasons and relates them to the adaptations when preparing, cooking and serving risotto. The reasons for the adaptations are related to the introduction of convenience foods and changing family lifestyles (1) (3).

To reach Merit more securely, the student would need to include more detailed reasons and relate them to the given examples e.g. for the use of different ingredients in the risotto as part of New Zealand’s eating patterns (2).

High Achieved

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Student response
Student 4 (PDF, 56KB)

For Achieved, the student needs to demonstrate understanding of how cultural practices influence eating patterns in New Zealand.

This involves giving an account with clear examples.

The student gives an account with clear examples that shows how adaptations have been made when preparing, cooking and serving traditional Italian risotto to become part of New Zealand’s eating patterns (1) (3) (4) (7) (8).

Some brief reasons for adaptations to risotto are related to restaurants and cookbooks (2), travel (5) and premade stock (6).

To reach Merit, the student would need to give more reasons related to the given examples (1) (3) (4) (7) (8), showing why the adaptations have been made to risotto to become part of New Zealand’s eating patterns.

Low Achieved

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Student response
Student 5 (PDF, 54KB)

For Achieved, the student needs to demonstrate understanding of how cultural practices influence eating patterns in New Zealand.

This involves giving an account with clear examples.

The student gives an account with some clear examples that shows how adaptations have been made when preparing, cooking and serving traditional Italian risotto to become part of New Zealand’s eating patterns (1) (2) (3) (4).

To gain Achieved more securely, the student would need to include more specific details in the account, related to the given examples, showing how risotto has been adapted to become part of New Zealand’s eating patterns.

High Not Achieved

Commentary

Student response
Student 6 (PDF, 54KB)

For Achieved, the student needs to demonstrate understanding of how cultural practices influence eating patterns in New Zealand.

This involves giving an account with clear examples.

The student gives a brief account, showing how adaptations have been made when preparing, cooking and serving traditional Italian risotto to become part of New Zealand’s eating patterns (4).

To reach Achieved, more specific detail is needed in the account, related to the given examples, to show how the cultural practice has been adapted in New Zealand, rather than focusing so heavily on the Italian cultural practices (1) (2) (3).