A brief overview of requirements of each unit
301 – Level 3 Award in understanding the principles and Practices of assessment
This unit requires a knowledge assignment comprising of 8 outcomes. Can be done remotely and submitted electronically. Course knowledge can be found from your own awarding body (or our awarding body City & Guilds), recommended text books (Completing your Training Assessment and Quality Assurance Qualifications, Anne Gravells and legislation knowledge.
The Performance Units are as follows: Note: The qualifications that you assess should be registered qualifications that have to undergo quality systems (moderation or verification) – and you should be employed within a registered qualification centre as an assessor.
302 – Combines with 301 above for a Level 3 Award in assessing competence in the work environment.
You should be employed as a work based assessor within an assessment centre and will need access to two candidates to assess in the work environment.
For each candidate you will need to demonstrate while being observed by your tutor, that you have planned an assessment in the workplace, observed and judged their work twice each – this will be in a real work environment, and the mandatory assessment methods you’ll need to demonstrate are Observation, Questioning and examining Work Products (end result or something they’ve produced at work such as documents/records (eg. paper) or an actual thing eg a haircut or brick wall).
Your evidence will be your assessment records (countersigned by qualified assessor) and these should also be Internally Quality Assured to demonstrate that you meet your centre’s requirements.
303 – Combines with 301 above for a Level 3 Award in assessing Vocationally Related Achievement.
You should be employed as an assessor within a vocational assessment centre such as a college or training centre and will need access to two candidates to assess in the workshop/class environment.
For each candidate you will need to demonstrate while being observed by your tutor that you have briefed the learners ahead of their assessment and judged their work twice each – this will be in a workshop/class environment, and you will demonstrate the use of methods such as Simulation/Case Study/ Project/Assignment/or written questions (i.e. a formal exam or test). (min 3 of these methods).
Your evidence will be your assessment records (countersigned by qualified assessor) and these should also be Internally Quality Assured to demonstrate that you meet your centre’s requirements.
Units 301, 302 and 303 as above combine for a Level 3 Certificate in assessing vocational achievement.
For practitioners who need to be qualified to use all the above listed assessment method.
Need for Countersignature and Internal Quality Assurance: (IV)
Please note that many qualifications will require you to be countersigned until you have qualified (your qualification’s Assessment Strategy will advise). The counter signatory should be a qualified Assessor member of your centre’s team, and all your work as an assessor must be submitted after it has been quality assured.
TAQA Assessor Observation: Your Colchester Institute (TAQA) Assessor will also observe you assessing your learners in your usual location(s) : You will assess two learners twice each so there will be four assessments/4 observations for each of unit 302 and 303.
Standardisation: You will also provide a record to show you have attended and contributed to a standardisation meeting where you have compared different evidence for your centre’s qualification assessed by you and/or your team and confirmed required standards to fulfil the outcomes needed.
CPD : include a list of your CPD over the last 18 months.
