Administration and ITCPD Presentation

Understanding Unit Assessment

National 3, 4 and 5

Programme

Structure and content of Unit Assessment Support Pack (UASP)

National standards

Applying the Standards to Candidate work

Structure and Content of UASPBasics:

All UASPs follow the same template: – Introduction– What this pack covers– Assessment– Evidence– Re-assessment arrangements– Examples of recording documentation– Appendix 1: Assessment for candidates

IT Solutions for Administrators (National 3) - Package 2

National Standards

Achievement of a Unit requires candidates to demonstrate achievement of all Assessment Standards.

If you are using a UASP without any alterations this means that the candidate must generate evidence for all required skills in the task.

National Standards Assessors can adapt any SQA produced UASP.

For example in the UASP for IT Solutions for Administrators (National 4) there are two suggested edits for Assessment Standard 1.1

In addition to wrapping text and bordering a cell, the efile and task could be amended asking the candidate to also:

– delete a column or row, – format certain cells to currency, 0 decimal places.

This would provide 4 edits, the candidate must then get 2 correct in order to achieve the Assessment Standard.

National Standards Error Tolerances :

National 3: 1 every 0 - 10 words National 4: 1 every 0 - 15 wordsNational 5: 1 every 0 - 20 words

Typos do not include key pieces of information that would render the document not fit for purpose for example: typed date of event 12 Nov rather than 21 Nov – task not achieved.

Spacing errors, ref and date wrong, paragraphs in wrong place, line spacing not consistent – count as errors. If errors are over the tolerance – task not achieved.

Error tolerances are not flagged. Total words are counted and divided by the error tolerance for

that level.

National Standards Print Instructions:

If printing instructions are not part of an Assessment Standard and a candidate fails to print according to the task this would not fail them.

National Standards Re-assessment:

– If a candidate fails only 1 Outcome or even 1 Assessment Standard within an assessment they can be re-assessed on that specific Outcome or Assessment Standard only

– If a candidate hands in a piece of work which is obviously not correct you can ask them to re-check it before you make your assessment judgement.

– Specific feedback should not be given. For example: “the margins are wrong or the IF formula does not work”.

Added Value Unit Should be assessed and ‘marked’ just like the other

Units.

This assessment does have a time limit – no more than 8 hours.

Key Messages Report

National 4 and 5 Administrative Practices

National Standards Theory – content & command word H&S and Security

– at N4 it is the employee’s responsibilities

Common Issues Theory – content & command word H&S and Security

– at N5 it is the organisation’s responsibilities

National 5Communication

Common Issues

Theory Communication N5 – assessment standard 1.2 & 1.3:

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