WELSH JOINT EDUCATION COMMITTEE
CYD-BWYLLGOR ADDYSG CYMRU
ENTRY LEVEL
CERTIFICATE
IN
HISTORY
Unit 3: Thematic Study
HEALTH AND MEDICINE
Assessment Objective 6
A written task incorporating aspects of numeracy to assess knowledge and
understanding of vaccination and the fight against disease.
Total
Mark
For Office
Use
Name of Candidate: ______________________________________________
Name of Centre: _________________________________________________
Centre number: __________________________________________________
Candidates must answer all the questions
Students with reading difficulties may have the questions read to them by the
person supervising the test. Oral answers may be given and written into the
answer book by the teachers.
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Look at the 3 sources below.
SOURCE A
This source shows some figures about the number of people dying
from smallpox.
1700
1800
1845
(vaccination
for infants
made free)
1860
(vaccination
for all
compulsory)
1900
7,000
8,000
4,000
1,000
200
SOURCE B
This source is a painting showing Edward Jenner injecting 8 year old
James Phipps.
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SOURCE C
This source is written by a history teacher.
Small pox was a terrible disease that killed many people in the 18th
century. The people who had the disease but did not die were left
scarred and disfigured for life. Edward Jenner, a country doctor,
discovered that people who were vaccinated with cowpox did not get
smallpox. However, there were people at the time who were against
vaccination. Many ordinary people were worried about giving
themselves a disease that came from cows.
[Judith Day, a history teacher, writing in a school text-book on Health
and Medicine, (2005)]
YOUR WORK
QUESTION 1
Complete the paragraph by using the words in the small box below.
Edward Jenner was a __________ in Gloucestershire. He heard that
________________ who had already caught cowpox from their
________________ did not get the much more serious disease called
________________.
cows
smallpox
doctor
milkmaids
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QUESTION 2
Look at source A
(i)
How many people died of smallpox in 1700?
_______________________________________________(1)
(ii)
How many people died of smallpox in 1900?
_______________________________________________(1)
(iii) How many more people died of smallpox in 1700 than in
1900?
_______________________________________________(2)
Look at source B
(iv) What is happening in this painting?
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
_______________________________________________(2)
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QUESTION 3
Turn the figures in source A into a line graph.
You can use ICT or use a piece of squared graph paper for this task.
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QUESTION 4
This question wants you to use the sources and your own knowledge
of the topic.
Give two reasons why some people were against vaccination in the
nineteenth century.
1.
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
_________________________________________________(2)
2.
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
_________________________________________________(2)
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WELSH JOINT EDUCATION COMMITTEE
CYD-BWYLLGOR ADDYSG CYMRU
ENTRY LEVEL
CERTIFICATE
IN
HISTORY
MARKSCHEMES FOR UNIT 3 NUMERACY EXERCISES
Title of unit:
HEALTH AND MEDICINE
QUESTION 1
2 marks in total
Award ½ mark for each correct answer.
Doctor
Milkmaids
Cows
smallpox
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QUESTION 2
(i)
6 marks in total
Award one mark for the correct answer.
7000
(ii)
Award one mark for the correct answer.
200
(iii) This question involves some basic numeracy skills.
Award two marks for the correct answer.
6800
(iv) Look to reward two distinct points here.
Award one mark for each point made.
Dr Jenner is giving an injection to a small boy.
The injection is cowpox.
The injection is to stop him developing smallpox.
If only one point is made, but an attempt to explain is seen, this
can be awarded two marks also.
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QUESTION 3
6 marks in total
This involves candidates constructing a graph or chart.
They can use either graph paper or ICT for this task.
Candidates should look to include the following in their work.
•
•
•
•
•
A title
Two labelled axes
An appropriate scale or gradation
Equally spaced bars
Labelled bars
When awarding marks, apply the following mark scheme:
Level 1 (1 – 2 marks)
Can construct a graph / chart with some of the above.
Needed considerable assistance to complete task.
Level 2 (3 – 5 marks)
Can construct a graph / chart with most of the above.
Needed minimal assistance with task.
Level 3 (6 marks)
Can construct a graph / chart with all of the above.
Completed task independently.
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QUESTION 4
4 marks in total
Award up to two marks for each reason given.
Give one mark for general or brief answers.
Award the two marks if the candidates are trying to explain.
They were frightened of the actual injection.
They believed they could get a disease from cows.
They did not believe the injection would work.
Some doctors thought that they might lose the income they made from other
remedies such as inoculations.
PS/ED/W181(06)
12/01/2007
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