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Understanding Standards – Re-assessment and Re-do

Understanding Standards – Re-assessment and Re-do. Iain Walker. Understanding Standards – Re-assessment and Re-do. WHY? Raising Standards and the Quality Enhancement Plan HOW? The importance of discussion. SQA guidance and what do you know? Reassessment or Re-do?

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Understanding Standards – Re-assessment and Re-do

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  1. Understanding Standards – Re-assessment and Re-do Iain Walker

  2. Understanding Standards – Re-assessment and Re-do WHY? Raising Standards and the Quality Enhancement Plan HOW? • The importance of discussion. • SQA guidance and what do you know? • Reassessment or Re-do? • Guidance, Professional Judgement, Standardisation and Internal Verification

  3. Understanding Standards – Re-assessment and Re-do Exercise 1 • The importance of discussion exercise, Albion Rovers vs Airdrie. In your groups discuss and agree the following: • Against each player write 1 if you feel the comments are positive • Against each player write 2 if you feel the comments are negative • Identify the best and worst player in each team • Who was the best player overall • What was the final score You have 10 minutes

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  6. Understanding Standards – Re-assessment and Re-do Albion Rovers 7 Airdrie 2 It is not possible from the comments to work out the exact score. The result and the information just don’t match. In assessment it is crucial that the judgements match the evidence, and this is greatly enhanced through discussion and standardisation.

  7. Understanding Standards – Re-assessment and Re-do Exercise 2 • SQA guidance and what do you know? • Read the two extracts from SQA documents relating to reassessment • Discuss each question with your colleagues at the table and agree an answer from the choices given You have 15 minutes

  8. Understanding Standards – Re-assessment and Re-do How many reassessment attempts are you allowed? ONE An ‘exceptional circumstance’ might be not being bothered to sit an assessment? FALSE Where a candidate requires a second attempt and is being reassessed it must take place next year? FALSE Re-do must take place in the week after the assessment was attempted? FALSE

  9. Understanding Standards – Re-assessment and Re-do All assessments can have a ‘re-do’ rather than a re-assessment? FALSE A re-assessment can be easier than the first assessment? FALSE If a candidate fails one Outcome assessment they must take them all again? NORMALLY FALSE A candidate is allowed to undertake re-do of the questions they get wrong in the Graded Unit 1? FALSE

  10. Understanding Standards – Re-assessment and Re-do In Economics 2, a candidate getting more than 4 questions wrong out of 14 in the open book report must take a new assessment with all new questions and answer the whole paper again? FALSE All ASP’s/Exemplars are guaranteed to be correct because they are produced by SQA? FALSE The assessments in the ASP/Exemplar for a specific Unit are the only way that that Unit can be assessed. NORMALLY FALSE Assessments have to be undertaken by candidates strictly in line with the Assessment Plan in the Course Tutor Guide? FALSE

  11. Understanding Standards – Reassessment and Re-do Exercise 3 • Reassessment or Re-do? • Using the information in the Reassessment or Re-do exercise discuss each scenario and agree a response for each • You have 10 minutes

  12. Understanding Standards – Reassessment and Re-do • A candidate has one correct response, incorrectly answered three questions and not answered the three questions. • Reassessment • A candidate has two correct responses, and two out of three parts in another question, incorrectly answered two further questions and not answered two questions. • Reassessment • A candidate answers four questions correctly and one part of a further question. Of the remaining two questions one is incorrect, whilst the other makes a little sense but is not clear. • Professional Judgement • A candidate answers five questions correctly but has a calculation error in a further answer, and the last response is in the main incorrect. • Re-do • You have 10 minute

  13. Understanding Standards – Reassessment and Re-do • Guidance, Professional Judgement, Standardisation and Internal Verification • Reassessment or redo will depend on: • The Unit Specification – are there rule i.e. error tolerance • The type of assessment and assessment conditions • Decisions made at standardisation/internal verification meetings • Professional judgement • Guidance from External Verifiers • DO YOUR DECISIONS MATCH THE EVIDENCE?

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