Assessor: Leading the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Certificate Level 4

This qualification is internally assessed. Methods appropriate to the assessment of knowledge, understanding and skills include holistic assessment, observation, examination of work products, questions, professional discussions, expert witness testimony and recognition of prior learning.

For this qualification you will be assessed using a range of methods; all units must be assessed using methods appropriate to your own internal quality assurance (IQA) performance. These must include:

• observation of performance
• examining products of work
• questioning.

Direct evidence of this kind may be supplemented, where necessary, by professional discussion, reflective accounts or witness testimony (simulations are not allowed).
There must be sufficient valid evidence for all the assessment criteria. We use a Holistic assessment approach and encourage one piece of evidence to be used to meet the requirements of more than one assessment criterion.
Evidence must come from your own performance in the work environment. There must be evidence of you monitoring a minimum of two assessors, each with a minimum of two candidates of their own, through components of a qualification.

You will need pen and paper plus email / Internet access.

This qualification does qualify you to work as an internal verifier or internal quality assurer [IQA} it also supports your professional development, either in your current or future job roles.
This qualification provides progression to the role of Lead Quality assure or progression to a qualifications at level 5.  It also allows you to access other level 4 qualifications for External Quality Assurance and those relevant to teaching, training and education.