Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practices

Unit 1 The aim of this unit is to assess the knowledge and understanding a learning and development practitioner requires for the internal quality assurance of assessment. This unit is suitable for anyone wishing to gain knowledge about internal quality assurance. For example, teachers, tutors, trainers, programme managers, course leaders or staff working in quality departments both in private training organisations and colleges of further education. These qualifications will be required for: Assessors and verifiers involved in National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) for the next three years. Those who deliver these qualifications will need to be qualified to meet the requirements of the NVQ Code of Practice and Sector Skills Councils assessment strategies. Assessors and quality assurance staff who deliver QCF qualifications that use the term ‘NVQ’ in their title will also need these qualifications. Depending on the assessment strategies set by individual Sector Skills Councils, some staff, who are assessing and quality assuring qualifications within the QCF that do not use the term ‘NVQ’ in their titles, but whose purpose is to confirm occupational competence, will need to hold IQA or EQA qualifications. These qualifications would be helpful for teachers in schools who deliver vocational qualifications with applied learning, such as BTEC Firsts and Nationals. Unit 2 The aim of this unit is to assess the performance of a learning and development practitioner with responsibility for the internal quality assurance of assessment. This unit is suitable for those who have responsibility for the internal quality assurance of assessment. It would be helpful for any teacher, trainer or course leader, to aid understanding of internal quality assurance processes. This unit is assessed in the workplace and evidence for all learning outcomes for this unit must come from performance in the work environment. Simulations are not allowed. All learning outcomes in this unit must be assessed using methods appropriate to the learner’s IQA performance. As a minimum, the assessment of this unit must include monitoring of at least two assessors – each with a minimum of two candidates of their own. The range of direct evidence must include: observation of practice, examination of products of work and questioning of the learner. These can be supplemented, where necessary, with professional discussion, reflective accounts or witness statements. Supporting evidence for this unit can potentially include any of the following: Quality assurance policy, documents, data protection, summaries of key documentation, eg awarding organisation documentation, organisation procedures and legal requirements eg review/self assessment review policies/documentation organisation management structure – indicating roles/responsibilities for internal quality assurance and planning, eg annual planner, visits of external quality assurance bodies samples of assessment tracking/logging pro forma, evaluation pro forma quality assurance plan indicating, eg how learner is involved, the timing, information required, administrative arrangements Aims of the IQA Qualification are to support delegates to: