QD Form 4b Exemplar Assessment Template

Qualification Title: Award in Education and Training

Unit Title: (Exemplar)
Understanding the Principles and Practice of Assessment D/601/5313
Level: Three
Credit Value: 3
Learning Outcomes Assessment Criteria
1.1 Explain the function of assessment in learning and development
1.2 Define the key concepts and principles of assessment
1.3 Explain the responsibilities of the assessor
1. Understand the principles and requirements of
assessment
1.4 Identify the regulations and requirements relevant to assessment in own area
of practice
2. Understand different types of assessment method
2.1 Compare the strengths and limitations of a range of assessment methods with
reference to the needs of individual learners
3.1 Summarise key factors to consider when planning assessment
3.2 Evaluate the benefits of using a holistic approach to assessment
3.3 Explain how to plan a holistic approach to assessment
3.4 Summarise the types of risks that may be involved in assessment in own area
of responsibility
3. Understand how to plan assessment
3.5 Explain how to minimize risks through the planning process
4.1 Explain the importance of involving the learner and others in the assessment
process
4.2 Summarise types of information that should be made available to learners and
others involved in the assessment process
4.3 Explain how peer and self-assessment can be used effectively to promote
learner involvement and personal responsibility in the assessment of learning
4. Understand how to involve learners and others in
assessment
4.4 Explain how assessment arrangements can be adapted to meet the needs of
individual learners
5.1 Explain how to judge whether evidence is: sufficient, authentic, current
5. Understand how to make assessment decisions 5.2 Explain how to ensure that assessment decisions are: made against specific
criteria, valid, reliable, fair
6. Understand quality assurance of the assessment
process
6.1 Evaluate the importance of quality assurance in the assessment process,
in own areas of practice

L3 Award in Education and Training Certa April 2014
6.2 Summarise quality assurance and standardization procedures in own are of
practice
6.3 Summarise the procedures to follow when there are disputes concerning
assessment in own area of practice
7.1 Explain the importance of following procedures relevant to assessment
including those for confidentiality, health, safety and welfare
7. Understand how to manage information relating to
assessment
7.2 Explain how feedback and questioning contribute to the assessment process
8.1 Explain legal issues, policies and procedures relevant to assessment,
including those for confidentiality, health, safety and welfare
8.2 Explain the contribution that technology can make to the assessment process
8.3 Evaluate requirements for equality and diversity and, where appropriate,
bilingualism in relation to assessment
8. Understand the legal and good practice requirements
in relation to assessment
8.4 Explain the value of reflective practice and continuing professional
development in the assessment process












Assessment Criteria* Assessment
Activity
1.1 1.2 2.1 3.1 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 5.1 5.2
Task 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Assessment Criteria* Assessment
Activity
1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 6.1 6.2 6.3 7.1 7.2 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4
Task 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
1 Case study O 10 Project
2 Written question & answer/test/exam O 11 Role play/simulation
3 Essay O 12 Practical demonstration
4 Report O 13 Group discussion O
5 Oral question and answer O 14 Performance/exhibition
6 Written description O 15 Production of artefact
7 Reflective log/diary O 16 Practice file
8 Tutor testimony 17 Witness testimony
9 Professional discussion O 18 Examination of products of work

L3 Award in Education and Training Certa April 2014
Scenario

You are a tutor assessor delivering qualifications at your centre.

L3 Award in Education and Training Certa April 2014
Task
AC
*
Guidance for Tutors
Assessment
Definitions
Think about a particular qualification you are involved with and explain its assessment strategy.
Provide details about the context of your chosen qualification and how learners and other
members of staff are involved in and informed about this.

Select a varied, range of four assessment tasks from the qualification. For each, describe what the
learner is required to do, the assessment methods used and the resulting evidence that is
produced in each case. Take each assessment task in turn and compare its strengths and
limitations, making reference to assessment terminology appropriately.

Reflect on your evidence and consider how you could develop peer and self assessment,
explaining the impact on personal responsibility in both cases.

(No word count is given for this assessment task, however careful planning, using the learning
outcomes and assessment criteria is recommended as a basis for providing concise evidence.)

Ensure your answer meets all of the Learning Outcomes and Assessment
Criteria, and that your answers relate to your role as a teaching and
learning practitioner wherever possible, ie, they are contextualised.
Learning Outcomes Assessment Criteria
LO1
Understand the principles
and requirements of
assessment
1.1 Explain the function of assessment in learning and
development
1.2 Define the key concepts and principles of assessment
LO2
Understand different types
of assessment method
2.1 Compare the strengths and limitations of a range of
assessment methods with reference to the needs of
individual learners
LO3
Understand how to plan
assessment
3.1 Summarise key factors to consider when planning
assessment
1
LO4 Understand how to involve
learners and others in
assessment
4.1 Explain the importance of involving the learner and
others in the assessment process
4.2 Summarise types of information that should be made



1.1
1.2
2.1
3.1
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
5.1
5.2








This unit links to Learning and
Development standard 9, Assess
Learner Achievement. The tutor
assessor must hold the unit they are
assessing or a recognised equivalent
Types of assessment could be useful
when describing the assessment
strategy, learners may use formal,
informal, initial, diagnostic, formative /
assessment for learning, summative,
continuous, holistic

The underpinning principles of
assessment are listed as validity,
reliability, sufficiency, authenticity and
currency (Ollin R, 2012:60) and
fairness (Gravells A, 2012:61) and both
sources concur that you must assess
against specific criteria.

Ofqual Conditions of Recognition, Sept
13, also refer to manageability and
minimising bias

No word count is given for this
assessment task, however careful
planning, using the learning outcomes
and assessment criteria is
recommended as a basis for providing
concise evidence.

Written Assignment


Task
AC
*
Guidance for Tutors
Assessment
Definitions
available to learners and others involved in the
assessment process
4.3 Explain how peer and self-assessment can be used
effectively to promote learner involvement and personal
responsibility in the assessment of learning
4.4 Explain how assessment arrangements can be
adapted to meet the needs of individual learners
LO5
Understand how to make
assessment decisions
5.1 Explain how to judge whether evidence is:
sufficient
authentic
current
5.2 Explain how to ensure that assessment decisions are:
made against specific criteria
valid
reliable
fair

Please note that learners should
always be required to contextualise
their answers to help avoid
plagiarism, ie to prevent learners
from using answers that are
available on the internet.
Learners should be reminded
that the use of such documents
without appropriate citation,
even as the basis for framing
their answer, is plagiarism, and
will be dealt with using the
Malpractice Policies of Certa and
the Centre.
Plagiarism can be easily detected
by typing a sentence or two of the
learners answer into Google and
checking their answer against the
documents that are listed.


L3 Award in Education and Training Certa April 2014
Task AC* Guidance for Tutors
Assessment
Definitions

2

Task
Your training centre has recently been given new funding to deliver Work Preparation
qualifications. Your line manager has asked you to produce resources for an induction session to
ensure that any tutor assessors joining the centre will be able to carry out their assessor roles and
responsibilities competently.

Prepare relevant resources, presented in a coherent way, choosing a format which you feel would
be most appropriate for your task. You may choose for example, written text with labelled
diagrams, a Power Point format with notes etc, or an alternative format agreed with your tutor
assessor.

1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5



For this task encourage
participants to avoid duplicating
task 1 answers by focusing on:-
the assessment cycle;
accountability, benchmarking,
internally or externally devised
assessment methods,
transparency, assessment for
Case study

Task AC* Guidance for Tutors
Assessment
Definitions
L3 Award in Education and Training Certa April 2014

As an alternative you may design your own case study to reflect the assessment of a
different qualification within a particular environment. You should ask for approval from
your assessor before you start the assessment task.

(No word count is given for this assessment task, however careful planning, using the learning
outcomes and assessment criteria is recommended as a basis for providing concise evidence.)

Ensure your answer meets all of the Learning Outcomes and Assessment
Criteria, and that your answers relate to your role as a teaching and
learning practitioner wherever possible, ie, they are contextualised.
Learning Outcomes Assessment Criteria

LO1

Understand the
principles and
requirements of
assessment
1.1 Explain the function of assessment in learning and
development
1.2 Define the key concepts and principles of assessment
1.3 Explain the responsibilities of the assessor
1.4 Identify the regulations and requirements relevant to
assessment in own area of practice

LO3

Understand how to
plan assessment
3.1 Summarise key factors to consider when planning
assessment
3.2 Evaluate the benefits of using a holistic approach to
assessment
3.3 Explain how to plan a holistic approach to assessment
3.4 Summarise the types of risks that may be involved in
assessment in own area of responsibility
3.5 Explain how to minimize risks through the planning process

LO6

Understand quality
assurance of the
assessment process
6.1 Evaluate the importance of quality assurance in the
assessment process, in own areas of practice
6.2 Summarise quality assurance and standardization
procedures in own are of practice
6.3 Summarise the procedures to follow when there are disputes
concerning assessment in own area of practice

LO7

Understand how to
7.1 Explain the importance of following procedures relevant to
assessment including those for confidentiality, health, safety and
6.1
6.2
6.3


7.1
7.2


8.1
8.2
8.3
8.4



learning, summative assessment,
end loaded assessment, the
importance of feedback,
motivation.

No word count is given for this
assessment task, however careful
planning, using the learning
outcomes and assessment criteria is
recommended as a basis for
providing concise evidence.


Please note that learners should
always be required to
contextualise their answers to
help avoid plagiarism, ie to
prevent learners from using
answers that are available on the
internet.
Learners should be reminded
that the use of such documents
without appropriate citation,
even as the basis for framing
their answer, is plagiarism, and
will be dealt with using the
Malpractice Policies of Certa
and the Centre.
Plagiarism can be easily detected
by typing a sentence or two of the
learners answer into Google and
checking their answer against the
documents that are listed.

L3 Award in Education and Training Certa April 2014
Task AC* Guidance for Tutors
Assessment
Definitions
manage information
relating to
assessment
welfare
7.2 Explain how feedback and questioning contribute to the
assessment process

LO8

Understand the legal
and good practice
requirements in
relation to
assessment.
8.1 Explain legal issues, policies and procedures relevant to
assessment, including those for confidentiality, health, safety
and welfare
8.2 Explain the contribution that technology can make to the
assessment process
8.3 Evaluate requirements for equality and diversity and, where
appropriate, bilingualism in relation to assessment
8.4 Explain the value of reflective practice and continuing
professional development in the assessment process