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Practical Craft Skills
CPD Presentation
Unit Specifications and Unit Assessment Support Packs (UASP)
National 3, 4 and 5
Aims
To provide an understanding of:
The structure and content of the new NQ Unit Specifications and Unit Assessment Support Packs (UASPs) for your subject at SCQF levels 3 to 5
How to gather evidence and make assessment judgments in your subject
Learning Objectives
By the end you will be able to:
Understand the key SQA assessment documentation for Practical Technologies
Understand the structure and content of the Unit Specifications and UASP
Understand the structure and content of the National 4 Added Value Unit and National 5 Practical Activity
Unit Assessment
Assessments can be designed to provide evidence across more than one Unit or Outcome – combined assessments
Greater range of techniques and methodologies for assessment – encouraged through the UASP
More opportunities to gather evidence as part of learning and teaching
Available UASP
National 3 National 4 National 5
Unit by Unit Unit by Unit Unit by Unit
Portfolio Portfolio Portfolio
Combined Approach Combined Approach Combined Approach
Practical Technologies UASP
Unit by Unit Unit by Unit approach National 3,4 and 5 – discrete
assessment tasks for each Unit and combining of skills within Units for National 5
Portfolio Allows identification and gathering of different types of
evidence which meet Outcomes and Assessment Standards.
Combined Approach This pack is designed to provide an efficient means of
generating assessment evidence for Outcomes across more than one Unit.
Key points: Practical Technology Units standards remain consistent feature the best approaches of the current Practical
Technology Units have a hierarchical Unit structure that provide
progression from National 3 to National 5 worksheets documenting completion of the various
assessment tasks physical model created to meet Outcomes Candidate log documenting the candidate’s
achievement of the Outcomes
Unit Specifications
Evidence Requirements:Assessors should use their professional judgment, subject knowledge and experience, and understanding of their learners, to determine the most appropriate ways to present evidence and the conditions and contexts in which they are used. The tasks are designed to be either completed and documented during the course of learning and teaching activities, or set as specific assessment tasks. Evidence may also be gathered for individual Outcomes where appropriate.
Unit Specifications
Learners will be required to provide evidence of skills by:
Completed evidence, signed and dated worksheets
Practice joints/test pieces
The physical model
The completed Candidate Log (new area of the Course)
UASPs can be used to:
Assess your candidates
Help you develop your own assessments
UASP - purpose
Designed to encourage professional judgment
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
UASP – key features
Makes the Course more than the sum of its parts
Builds on current Course Assessment
Defined as breadth, challenge and/or application as outlined in Building the Curriculum 5
Involves accumulation, assimilation, integration and/or application of skills, knowledge and understanding
Controlled assessment
National 4 Added Value Unit
To generate assessment evidence for the Outcome and Assessment Standards by means of a practical activity
physical product
record of progress (with new area)
candidate assessment record
National 4 Added Value Unit – Practical Activity
SQA is maintaining controlled assessment for non-question paper examination in this Course.
Assessors should judge the evidence for each Assessment Standard
– Additional guidance– Safe working practice– Adherence to tolerances– Functional Dimensions (only in metalwork)
National 5 Internal Assessment - Practical Activity
Controlled assessment
This practical activity is: set by SQA- must use a task from the bank available from SQA’s secure site conducted under a controlled condition in the workshop and classroomevidence will be internally marked by centre staff in line with SQA marking instructions Internal marking will be quality assured by SQAPractical Activity Assessment Record
National 5 – Practical Activity
Example: A Practical ActivityAssessment Record
Candidate details
Total award out of 80
No grades or percentages
National 5 - Grade Agreements
Example of external verification report
Outcome of Verification
Identified minor issues with either the validity or the reliability of the centre’s approaches or assessment judgements, but these do not warrant a hold on certification being placed.
Accepted with recommendations
When issues have been identified with the validity and/or the reliability of the centre’s approach or assessment judgements
re-assess all candidates at the level where these approaches have been not accepted
Not Accepted
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