Practical Craft Skills CPD Presentation

Unit Specifications and Unit Assessment Support Packs (UASP) National 3, 4 and 5

Aims To provide an understanding of:  The structure and content of the new NQ Unit Specifications and Unit Assessment Support Packs (UASPs) for your subject at SCQF levels 3 to 5  How to gather evidence and make assessment judgments in your subject

Learning Objectives By the end you will be able to:  Understand the key SQA assessment documentation for Practical Technologies  Understand the structure and content of the Unit Specifications and UASP  Understand the structure and content of the National 4 Added Value Unit and National 5 Practical Activity

Unit Assessment  Assessments can be designed to provide evidence across more than one Unit or Outcome – combined assessments  Greater range of techniques and methodologies for assessment – encouraged through the UASP  More opportunities to gather evidence as part of learning and teaching

Available UASP National 3National 4National 5 Unit by Unit Portfolio Combined Approach

Practical Technologies UASP Unit by Unit  Unit by Unit approach National 3,4 and 5 – discrete assessment tasks for each Unit and combining of skills within Units for National 5 Portfolio  Allows identification and gathering of different types of evidence which meet Outcomes and Assessment Standards. Combined Approach  This pack is designed to provide an efficient means of generating assessment evidence for Outcomes across more than one Unit.

Key points: Practical Technology Units  standards remain consistent  feature the best approaches of the current Practical Technology Units  have a hierarchical Unit structure that provide progression from National 3 to National 5  worksheets documenting completion of the various assessment tasks  physical model created to meet Outcomes  Candidate log documenting the candidate’s achievement of the Outcomes

Unit Specifications Evidence Requirements:  Assessors should use their professional judgment, subject knowledge and experience, and understanding of their learners, to determine the most appropriate ways to present evidence and the conditions and contexts in which they are used.  The tasks are designed to be either completed and documented during the course of learning and teaching activities, or set as specific assessment tasks. Evidence may also be gathered for individual Outcomes where appropriate.

Unit Specifications Learners will be required to provide evidence of skills by:  Completed evidence, signed and dated worksheets  Practice joints/test pieces  The physical model  The completed Candidate Log (new area of the Course)

UASPs can be used to:  Assess your candidates  Help you develop your own assessments UASP - purpose

 Designed to encourage professional judgment  Provide broad-based tasks – allow assessors to choose appropriate context and forms of evidence  Show range of approaches to generating assessment evidence  Give information on the type of evidence which could be gathered and how this is to be judged against Assessment Standards UASP – key features

 Makes the Course more than the sum of its parts  Builds on current Course Assessment  Defined as breadth, challenge and/or application as outlined in Building the Curriculum 5  Involves accumulation, assimilation, integration and/or application of skills, knowledge and understanding  Controlled assessment National 4 Added Value Unit

To generate assessment evidence for the Outcome and Assessment Standards by means of a practical activity  physical product  record of progress (with new area)  candidate assessment record National 4 Added Value Unit – Practical Activity

 SQA is maintaining controlled assessment for non-question paper examination in this Course.  Assessors should judge the evidence for each Assessment Standard –Additional guidance –Safe working practice –Adherence to tolerances –Functional Dimensions (only in metalwork) National 5 Internal Assessment - Practical Activity

Controlled assessment This practical activity is:  set by SQA- must use a task from the bank available from SQA’s secure site  conducted under a controlled condition in the workshop and classroom  evidence will be internally marked by centre staff in line with SQA marking instructions  Internal marking will be quality assured by SQA  Practical Activity Assessment Record National 5 – Practical Activity

Example: A Practical Activity Assessment Record

 Candidate details  Total award out of 80  No grades or percentages National 5 - Grade Agreements

Example of external verification report Outcome of Verification

Identified minor issues with either the validity or the reliability of the centre’s approaches or assessment judgements, but these do not warrant a hold on certification being placed. Accepted with recommendations

 When issues have been identified with the validity and/or the reliability of the centre’s approach or assessment judgements  re-assess all candidates at the level where these approaches have been not accepted Not Accepted