Assessors: Understanding the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice Level 4 Award

In Brief

Start Date / Duration

The next start date for this course is January 2025. Intakes for this course are September, January, April and June. The course duration is 52 weeks.

Entry requirements

You must be working in a role where you are required to maintain the quality of assessment from within an organisation or assessment centre
Have completed a Level 3 Assessors qualification

You will achieve

Level 4 Understanding the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice (Award)

Course overview

This qualiﬁcation covers understanding and internally assuring the quality of assessment, as well as planning, allocating and monitoring work in your own area of responsibility.

This specification includes the qualifications for internal and external quality assurers (previously internal and external verifiers). They were needed to meet the emerging needs of the developing qualification frameworks and to reflect changes in the practice of assessment.

These qualifications replace the V1 and V2 qualifications. They are part of the new suite of qualifications for assessors, internal quality assurers (IQA) and external quality assurers (EQA). 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 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 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.

Course content

This qualification will be delivered through a variety of activities and one to one tutorials.

The course consists of the following modules:

Understanding the Principles and Practices of Internally Assessing the Quality of Assessment
Internally Assure the Quality of Assessment

You will study:

Understand the principles and planning of the internal quality assurance of assessment
Understand how to manage information related to the internal quality assurance of assessment
Understand the legal and good practice requirements of internal quality assurance of assessment
Plan and internally evaluate the quality assurance of assessment
Internally maintain and improve quality of assessment
Manage information related to the internal quality of assurance of assessment
Maintain legal and good practice when internally monitoring quality assurance of assessment

You will be assessed through the coursework you produce and activities you will take part in.

No specialist equipment required.

You will study in your workplace.

Please discuss progression routes with your tutor.

Extra information

If the course is listed as full fee payable, you will have to pay for the course.

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