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SEV Update 2013

This update provides general comments on the location of internal assessment reports, unit specifications, evidence requirements, administration of assessments, areas of good practice, and specific areas for improvement in the field of business, management, and economics. It also highlights the importance of internal verification and ongoing challenges in the industry.

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SEV Update 2013

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  1. SEV Update 2013 Business Graded Units, Business Management, Economics

  2. SEV Update • Location of Internal Assessment Reports • General comments • Unit specifications, instruments of assessment and exemplification models • Evidence Requirements • Administration of assessments • Areas of good practice • Specific areas for improvement (Continuing challenges)

  3. SEV Update Location of Internal Assessment Reports www.sqa.org.uk Qualifications Higher National Browse HN Subjects Business, Administration, Accounting & Finance HNC/HND Business Internal Assessment Reports

  4. SEV Update - Feedback General comments • Verification focuses on all Units both old and new • Many centres used the 2010 framework, old awards lapse in 2013 and 2014 • Overall verification was very successful

  5. SEV Update - Feedback Unit specifications, instruments of assessment and exemplification models • The new Business Graded Unit 1 continues to bed in, and remains a challenge • The revised project has now been delivered • strengthen the links to the course • Check for changes to the specifications and the exemplars • Continuing uncertainty over what is the ‘rule book’, Unit specification or assessment exemplar

  6. SEV Update - Feedback Evidence Requirements • Better grades in GU 1???? • The importance of discussion to enhance consistency and arrive at sound decisions • Match the exemplar/assessment against the evidence requirements and record this in IV records

  7. SEV Update - Feedback Administration of assessments • Most centres are ‘old hands’, but there are new centres at both home and abroad • Most centres use the exemplars • All assessments must go through internal verification • Record issues don’t hide them

  8. SEV Update - Feedback Areas of good practice • Good practice now embedded • Record reasons for decisions where candidate evidence is on the cusp • Recording problems and discussion in IV records • Electronic submission and plagiarism checks • Detailed feedback and guidance

  9. SEV Update – Importance of Internal Verification Specific areas for improvement (Continuing challenges) • Mergers and partnerships - integration of quality procedures, staff and managerial changes • New QA procedures • Ensure the security of assessment exemplars • Look at the Unit specifications to check the requirements • Distinguishing between remediation and reassessment

  10. SEV Update Thank you for all of your hard work

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