Introducing Unit Specifications and Unit Assessment Support Packs National 3 and 4 Business National 5 Business Management

Unit Assessment  Assessments can be designed to provide evidence across more than one Unit or Outcome – combined assessments  Flexible and open Evidence Requirements in Units  Greater range of techniques and methodologies for assessment – encouraged through Unit assessment support packages  More opportunities to gather naturally occurring evidence – assessment as part of learning and teaching (gather as you go)

Unit Structure National 3 Business National 4 Business National 5 Business Management Business in Action Understanding Business Influences on Business Management of People and Finance Management of Marketing and Operations

Key points: Business Units  Standards remain the same but minimum competence is all that is required in Units  Although no direct hierarchical Unit structure there is overlap/cross-over between N4/5  Units provide progression from National 3 to Higher  National 4 Business has added value assessment that increases personalisation and choice  National 5 has a coursework assignment that increases personalisation and choice

Unit Assessment Support Packages - purpose UASPs can be used to: Assess your candidates Adapt for your own assessment programmes Help you develop your own assessments

Unit Specifications National 5 Business Management: Understanding Business Outcome 1 Give an account of the key objectives and activities of small to medium sized business organisations. This outcome covers 3 separate assessment standards Outcome 2 Apply knowledge and understanding of the factors that impact on the activities of small to medium sized business organisations. This outcome covers 3 separate assessment standards

Unit Specifications Evidence Requirements for this Unit: Assessors should use –professional judgement, –subject knowledge and experience, –understanding of their learners to determine the most appropriate ways to generate evidence and the conditions and contexts in which they are used.

UASPs – key features  Valid from August 2013  Designed to encourage professional judgement  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

UASPs for N3, N4 and N5 Package 1 - Unit by Unit approach Package 2 - Unit by Unit approach Package 3 - Combined approach Package 4 – Portfolio approach (gather as you go)

Judging Evidence

Workshop 1 Gathering and Judging Evidence for Units  In groups you will work through the worksheets on the table

National 4 Added Value Unit  Makes the Course more than the sum of its parts  Builds on current Course assessment and Group Award approaches  Defined as breadth, challenge and/or application as outlined in Building the Curriculum 5  May involve accumulation, assimilation, integration and/or application of skills, knowledge and understanding  Controlled assessment –setting conducting and marking

N4 AV Unit: Business Assignment  Focus on extending and applying skills and KU acquired during course  Candidates will research and communicate findings on a business-related topic – topic will be chosen with teacher support  There are 5 Assessment Standards but in presenting their findings (1.4), candidates will automatically have completed all other Assessment Standards  Internally marked pass or fail

Workshop 2  Gathering and Judging Evidence for Units