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Qualifications Update: Practical Technology

Qualifications Update: Practical Technology. Developing qualifications - drivers. Progression – provide progression from Es & Os and maximise continuity between levels More open and flexible requirements – fewer, broader outcomes, more focus on skills

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Qualifications Update: Practical Technology

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  1. Qualifications Update: Practical Technology

  2. Developing qualifications - drivers • Progression – provide progression from Es & Os and maximise continuity between levels • More open and flexible requirements – fewer, broader outcomes, more focus on skills • Assessment which supports learning - open evidence requirements – choice of assessment approaches – opportunities for combined assessment • Refreshed and relevant contexts for learning, providing challenge and enjoyment • Personalisation and Choice – in content/contexts for Units - Added Value Unit at National 4 – coursework assessment at National 5 • Robust and credible – current high standards in qualifications will be maintained

  3. Relationship between CfE and SCQF Levels Continues to 12 ≈ SCQF Levels 4 4 CfE Levels 3 3 2 2 1 1 early years

  4. KeypointsPractical Woodworking/Metalworking • build on success of current Woodworking and Engineering Craft Skills Courses • develop practical skills, practical creativity and problem solving • develop learners’ understanding of safe working practices in a workshop environment • develop learners’ understanding of sustainability issues in a practical workshop context

  5. Key pointsPractical Woodworking/Metalworking • open and flexible to allow for personalisation and choice and for learners to demonstrate practical creativity • hierarchical Unit structure that provides progression from National 4 to National 5* • added value assessments that provide personalisation and choice in practical activities at National 4 and National 5 *Successful completion of all the Units of the National 4 Practical Metalworking Course can be used to contribute to a National 3 Practical Craft Skills Course award.

  6. Key pointsPractical Craft Skills (N3) • experiential in nature and provides opportunities to develop and enhance practical creativity • develops practical problem-solving skills, and allows learners to gain an appreciation of safe working practices in a workshop or similar environment • develops skills in the use of materials and equipment, preparation techniques and manufacturing items

  7. Key pointsPractical Craft Skills (N3) • provides flexibility in the choice of materials to be used • provides progression from the National 2 Practical Craft Skills Course and progression to National 4 Practical Woodworking and Practical Metalworking Courses

  8. Unit Structure

  9. Unit Structure

  10. Assessment Support Schedule 2012/13

  11. Practical TechnologyUnit AssessmentNational 3 to National 5

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

  13. Unit Assessment Support packages – purpose Assessment support packages will be provided which you can use to: • Assess your candidates • Adapt for your own assessment programmes • Help you develop your own assessments

  14. Unit Assessment Support packages – 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

  15. Unit assessment support packages - approaches Practical Woodworking/Metalworking/Craft Skills Package 1 • Unit by Unit approach – discrete assessment tasks for each Unit Package 2 • Portfolio approach – naturally occurring evidence Package 3 • Combined approach – groups Outcomes and Assessment Standards from different Units

  16. Assessment Package 1 • 1 package per Unit at each level • mixture of set tasks, naturally occurring evidence • worksheets and practical activities • independent work, with support • re-assessment by assessment standard is possible

  17. Assessment Package 2 • covers all 3 Units at each level • “portfolio” approach • use of naturally occurring evidence • independent work, with support • describes appropriate evidence and success criteria for each assessment standard • re-assessment by assessment standard is possible

  18. Assessment Package 3 • 1 package per level • combined assessment tasks, each covering several outcomes or assessment standards • independent work, with support • re-assessment by assessment standard is possible

  19. General Update

  20. New Quality Assurance arrangements • Will cover new National 1 to National 5 from 2013/14 • New arrangements will promote shared understanding of national standards through a collaborative and partnership approach • New ‘Nominee’ role - provides a pool of nationally trained experts • Intense verification in the first 3 years, then an intelligence led approach will be adopted

  21. New Quality Assurance arrangements • Will cover new National 1 to National 5 from 2013/14 • New arrangements will promote shared understanding of national standards through a collaborative and partnership approach • New ‘Nominee’ role - provides a pool of nationally trained experts • Intense verification in the first 3 years, then an intelligence led approach will be adopted

  22. Prior-Verification • Can amend SQA Unit Assessment Support Packs, maintaining the standard. • If developing assessments, advised to use SQA Prior Verification Service. • First prior verification window opens 3rd June 2013, response in August. • Thereafter, 6 week turnaround on submissions • www.sqa.org.uk/cfepriorverification

  23. Recognising Positive Achievement • Opportunities for candidates who have achieved Units at National 5, but failed the Course Assessment, to achieve the Course at National 4 • “Fallback” based on hierarchical structures • No Compensatory Awards • Must have an entry and a ‘Pass’ result for the N4 Added Value Unit (English, Gaidhlig and Maths also require Literacy and Numeracy Units) • Pre and post certification models • A guide on these arrangements is now available www.sqa.org.uk/cfedelivery

  24. Practical TechnologyAdded Value Assessments:- National 5 Course Assessment- National 4 Added Value Unit

  25. Adding Value – National 4, National 5 • Each Course at National 4 and National 5 includes assessment of Added Value • For National 4, the added value is in an Added Value Unit - not graded • For National 5, the added value is in the Course Assessment - graded A - D (as at present)

  26. Added Value • 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 • Uses 7 defined assessment methods (there usually two of these)

  27. Controlled Assessment • Where the assessment method is not a question paper, SQA has introduced the concept of controlled assessment to ensure fairness and reliability • 3 stages of assessment: Setting, Conducting, Marking the assessment • Each will have a defined level of control: SQA-led activity, Shared responsibility between SQA and centres, Centre-led • Subject-specific decisions, but mostly SQA-led activity in initial years

  28. National 5 – Course Assessment Practical Woodworking • Practical Activity (80 marks) Practical Metalworking • Practical Activity (80 marks)

  29. National 4 Added Value Unit Practical Woodworking: Making a finished product from wood • Practical Activity (Pass/Fail) Practical Metalworking: Making a finished product from metal • Practical Activity (Pass/Fail)

  30. National 5 – Practical Activity • 80 marks (100% of award) • set by SQA (choice from bank) • supervised conditions • internally marked • applying skills and knowledge from all 3 Units • application and challenge

  31. National 4 Added Value Unit Practical Activity • criterion-based marking • similar to N5 Practical Activity • differences in tolerances/skills • supervised conditions • internally marked • applying skills and knowledge from all 3 units • application and challenge

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