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DISCUSSION ON QUALITY ASSURANCE Q1) Explain the regulations and requirements for internal quality assurance in own area of practice. 1.4 “Centre staff should familiarise themselves with the structure, content and assessment requirements of the qualifications before designing a course programme. Centres may design course programmes of study in any way which: • best meets the needs and capabilities of their candidates • satisfies the requirements of the qualifications. When designing and delivering the course programme, centres might wish to incorporate other teaching and learning that is not assessed as part of the qualifications. This might include the following: • literacy, language and/or numeracy • personal learning and …show more content…

Q2) Explain the appropriate criteria to use for judging the quality of the assessment process. 3.2 VALID - Relevant to the standards/criteria against which the candidate is being assessed. Such as 1.1, 1.2 the criteria listed matches the evidence and that it is relevant. For example asking students to carry out extra work that has not been asked of them which is not relevant. AUTHENTICITY - Being the Candidate’s own work. There should be evidence of research and the student should sign their work. SUFFICIENT - Enough evidence as specified in Evidence Requirements or Assessment Strategy. This could mean the sample size relates to how many candidate learners there are and should there be a larger sample size for a new assessor. CURRENCY OF EVIDENCE – the information is up to date. Work should be dated and signed. ACCURACY – that the work is marked against the listed criteria. Evidence of a Candidate’s knowledge, understanding, skill or competence that can be used to make a judgment of their achievement against agreed standards/criteria CONSISTENCY OF ASSESSMENT – needs to be reliable. Consistently achieves the same results with different assessors and the same (or similar) group of Candidates. To monitor this standardization should be put in place to cover a mixture of summative and formative assessments. This should also include a variety of assessment methods such as practical, written and

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