Reflective practice following the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice

Enrolling onto the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice

If you’ve enrolled on the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice, then you should have completed your assessor qualification and reflective practice is absolutely the same. It’s the same process and the same objective however the only difference is that as an IQA, you are responsible for your assessor’s development as well. We wont focus on EDAR or your own CPD as we are fully aware that you know about this but it’s the organisations needs to quality assurance.

Reflecting on assessor practice in the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice

Your assessors should be reflecting on their own practice and then implementing plans for their own CPD but as an IQA, you will also need to ensure that your assessors are developing in areas that suit the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice. Your assessors are probably more inclined at looking towards developing themselves towards their next job, but you need to ensure that your staff develop in order to serve the training providers requirements. Therefore, you may sit down with your assessors and discuss their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and then come up with an action plan to develop these.

Our learners that enrol on the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice are very evenly split between learners who enrol themselves and need the qualification and learners that have been enrolled by their employer because they need another IQA.

Just like any other business, IQAs need to ensure that the assessors are competent and qualified to meet the organisations learning needs so this may be identifying new qualifications that the training provider wishes to introduce but now need qualified staff to deliver it.

Conducting a learning needs analysis in the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice

You will need to conduct a learning needs analysis or gap analysis and the purpose is to highlight areas where shortages in training and skills exist and then recognising the individuals that could fill these gaps and then determining how we can get there.

Before we started delivering the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice many years ago, I was already qualified, and I knew my role was to monitor training. But as someone who has a passion for teaching, I didn’t want to step back from teaching the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice completely and I knew I could quality assure my own work so I needed to find an additional IQA who could help me in the role.

If you are a manager or a supervisor then you are likely doing this, but you need to carry out appraisals with your assessors to identify what they want to do with their lives, understand their motivation and link these with potential vacancies or shortages in your own organisation as well. At the time of selecting another IQA for the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice, I sat down my assessors to find out what their goals were and to see which had the skills and capability to perform the role and as important, had the desire to do so. As such, two staff trained as quality assurers and are still with us.