1. Annual Professional Development Conference - 2016
Thursday 25 August
Getting it Right
Marking and Standardising
Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

2. Making assessment decisions
Session is another interactive session
All of the sessions have been designed to give some additional support and guidance to you working every day within your centres.
This session hits at the basis of our working lives - making assessment decisions and standardising those decisions.
Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

3. Lets get marking Business Accounting Do not panic -
we have not chosen a particularly technical area to mark so accounting specialist knowledge is not required!
This topic will be our focus for the next 2 sessions.
Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

4. What is the aim of this activity?
Assessors must make assessment decisions on a regular basis.
Internal Verifiers must work closely with Assessors for consistency and quality assurance.
We need to work at making sure that the assessment decisions we make are appropriate.
Your ideas will be different from other colleagues here at the conference and in all of your centres.
The idea is for us all to share our skills to develop good practice which we can implement consistently to enhance our professional approach.
Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

5. What are we asking you to do?
Session 1
Mark candidate scripts and make assessment decisions.
Session 2
Then meet with colleagues to standardise and discuss your decisions.
Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

6. What do I do now? We have given you several documents to work with
We have given you several documents to work with
An extract from the Business Accounting unit specification
Outcome 3 - Users of Financial Information
Marking guidance in the form of a suggested solution
Extracts from candidate submissions for 2 candidates.
You must all now mark the candidate scripts.
Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

7. Carry out your marking!
Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

8. How was that?
You should all now have made assessment decisions for the submissions from 2 candidates.
You should have completed the checklists on the bottom of the script.
Your assessment decisions are now made.
Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

9. Take a break!
Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

10. Second Task instructions
Take the the assessment decisions that you have made about each of the 2 candidates.
In your groups discuss these.
There may be similarities and differences between the decisions made.
The next step is to standardise our decisions across all assessors.
Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

11. What do we do now?
In your groups discuss whether the candidates have passed the outcome or not.
Remember to use the unit specification and marking guidelines to determine whether each candidate has met the requirements of the outcome.
Hold a professional discussion within your groups to decide the overall decision for each candidate.
Make notes on the reasons for your overall group decision.
Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

12. Standardising
You should now have come to an overall group decision for each candidate.
Candidate 1
Candidate 2
Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

13. Group Discussion
You should now have come to an overall group decision for each candidate.
Candidate 1 - reasons for the decision
Candidate 2 - reasons for the decision
Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

14. Summary
You should by now have had some meaningful discussions with colleagues.
This is a vital part of any assessment process.
Make sure that you keep a record of these discussions.
You need to justify your decisions and also to ensure that you apply logic consistently over all candidates and cohorts and years.
Remember assessment decisions are often a group effort.
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15. Any questions?
Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills