Introducing Unit Specifications and Unit Assessment Support Packs

2. Introducing Unit Specifications and Unit Assessment Support Packs National 3 and 4 Business National 5 Business Management

3. Unit Assessment • Assessments can be designed to provide evidence across more than one Unit or Outcome – combined assessments • Flexible and open Evidence Requirements in Units • Greater range of techniques and methodologies for assessment – encouraged through Unit assessment support packages • More opportunities to gather naturally occurring evidence – assessment as part of learning and teaching (gather as you go)

4. Unit Structure

5. Key points: Business Units • Standards remain the same but minimum competence is all that is required in Units • Although no direct hierarchical Unit structure there is overlap/cross-over between N4/5 • Units provide progression from National 3 to Higher  • National 4 Business has added value assessment that increases personalisation and choice • National 5 has a coursework assignment that increases personalisation and choice

6. Unit Assessment Support Packages - purpose UASPs can be used to: • Assess your candidates • Adapt for your own assessment programmes • Help you develop your own assessments

7. Unit Specifications

8. Unit Specifications Evidence Requirements for this Unit: Assessors should use • professional judgement, • subject knowledge and experience, • understanding of their learners to determine the most appropriate ways to generate evidence and the conditions and contexts in which they are used.

9. UASPs – key features • Valid from August 2013 • Designed to encourage professional judgement • 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

10. UASPs forN3, N4 and N5 Package 1 - Unit by Unit approach Package 2 - Unit by Unit approach Package 3 - Combined approach Package 4 – Portfolio approach (gather as you go)

11. Judging Evidence

12. Workshop 1 Gathering and Judging Evidence for Units • In groups you will work through the worksheets on the table

13. National 4 Added Value Unit • Makes the Course more than the sum of its parts • Builds on current Course assessment and Group Award approaches • Defined as breadth, challenge and/or application as outlined in Building the Curriculum 5 • May involve accumulation, assimilation, integration and/or application of skills, knowledge and understanding • Controlled assessment –setting conducting and marking

14. N4 AV Unit: Business Assignment • Focus on extending and applying skills and KU acquired during course • Candidates will research and communicate findings on a business-related topic – topic will be chosen with teacher support • There are 5 Assessment Standards but in presenting their findings (1.4), candidates will automatically have completed all other Assessment Standards • Internally marked pass or fail

15. Workshop 2 • Gathering and Judging Evidence for Units