Awards/Certificate In Internal Quality Assurer Practice & Process - Online Study Material

This is an online study material for those aspiring to achieve the Internal Quality Assurer Award/Certificate. This offer and the tutor support is available to those interested in quality online material and robust tutor support organised through Skype and Telephone support. It is basically for online study material and one to one tutor support; we are not offering it as a course.

If you are interested in the actual qualification, which includes assessment of coursework and certification, you can contact us for this, we charged £400 for Award and £600 for Certificate.

Description

For information purpose, the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice cover the topics of the principles and practices of internally assuring the quality of assessment, how to internally assure the quality of assessment and to plan, allocate and monitor work in your own area of responsibility.

To achieve an award, candidates must complete a total of 12 credits from 2 mandatory units. To achieve a certificate, candidates must complete a total of 17 credits from 3 mandatory units.

• Unit 1 Understanding the principles and practices of internally assuring the quality of assessment: The aim of this unit is to assess knowledge and understanding of the principles and practices that underpin the internal quality assurance of assessment.
• Unit 2 Internally assure the quality of assessment: The aim of this unit is to assess the IQA candidate’s performance in assuring the quality of assessment from within an organisation or assessment centre.
• Unit 3 Plan, allocate and monitor the quality of work in own area of responsibility: The aim of this unit is to assess performance in leading the work of a team responsible for the internal quality assurance within an organisation or assessment centre.

Completion of unit 1 & 2 lead to the Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice

However, completion of the entire three units leads to the Certificate in Leading the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice

All units within these qualifications are internally assessed. The qualifications are criterion-referenced, based on the achievement of all the specified learning outcomes. To achieve a pass a learner must have successfully passed all the assessment criteria.

The award is made up of Unit 1 plus a practice based unit (Unit 2) where the learner will be required to monitor a minimum of two assessors, each with a minimum of two candidates of their own, through the components of a qualification. This Award is likely to be the one that is accessed by most IQA practitioners.

The certificate is made up of Unit 1 plus two practice-based units (Unit 2 & 3 – Management unit) that describe a competent practice which offers more flexibility to meet the needs of aspirant internal quality assurers.

An observation of assessment practice is an essential requirement of this programme (Unit 2 & 3)). All other assessment is conducted by the creation of a portfolio of evidence.

The course is for people who verify the work of other assessors, the third unit is aimed at those who lead the verification process and support other verifiers (this would normally be in a larger organisation).

You need to be a minimum of 19 years of age. For unit 2 the student needs to monitor a minimum of two assessors each with a minimum of two candidates of their own. Assessment activities may include sampling, observations and standardisation meetings.

Additional Information.

Your tutor/assessor will carry out an initial assessment of your past experience, current skills, knowledge, understanding and look at your real work situation, job role before agreeing with you that this qualification is suitable for you.

Internal verifier

Quality assurance

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