An independent investigation that produces a defensible claim about art and its context.
These are the statements the Visual Arts - Year 10 syllabus makes about Critical and Historical Investigation. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Formulating an art-historical question - Critical and Historical Investigation, Year 10.
Primary and secondary sources - Critical and Historical Investigation, Year 10.
Gallery, archive and catalogue research - Critical and Historical Investigation, Year 10.
Assessing a source's reliability and bias - Critical and Historical Investigation, Year 10.
Case study structure - Critical and Historical Investigation, Year 10.
Referencing and image permissions - Critical and Historical Investigation, Year 10.
Presenting research to an audience - Critical and Historical Investigation, Year 10.
Reflecting on the investigation - Critical and Historical Investigation, Year 10.
Year 10 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Critical and Historical Investigation are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Visual Arts - Year 10 uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Critical and Historical Investigation is module 3 of 3 in Visual Arts - Year 10. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Visual Arts - Year 10 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.