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

How Ofqual affects the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice

Ofqual is the qualification standards body which sets the standards for the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice and as an IQA you are responsible for ensuring that the qualification meets these standards but generally they are enforced by the awarding body. You need to ensure that you comply with awarding body so don’t worry about Ofqual as there is a hierarchy.

The role of policies and procedures in the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice

Your organisations policies and procedures are going to be key as you will follow your organisations quality assurance strategy which might be that you need to sample so many assessors, so many learners, different units and look out for high-risk groups. You actually might be the one responsible for writing these policies and procedures.

Laws and legislation will influence internal quality assurance. If we think about the affect of Covid-19 now, although no longer a law, many organisations have maintained dealing with Covid-19 in their risk assessments, so you need to ensure that assessment and IQA activities are in line with latest guidelines. You may set procedures in the event your assessor or learners become infected.

Health and safety in the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice

Health and safety legislation will affect IQA as you need to ensure that assessment is carried out in line with the law, and you are responsible for your learners and assessors’ safety. We got to ensure that when we run the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice that we consider basic needs like DSE equipment so now with online learning and remote sampling, are we limited to the amount of time we spend in front of a computer screen.

You need to ensure that assessment and IQA activities do not breach the Equality Act. When sampling our learners completing the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice are we sampling different genders, ethnic groups, ages or do we have a spread? Yes, its important that we identify risks, but we need to careful not to discriminate against anyone.

When setting assessment activities for our learners for the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice, we need to ensure that these assessments meet the awarding bodies requirements and if we identify learners that need reasonable adjustment, we need to ensure we follow the assessment guidelines and gather evidence because if we just do it, there is a possibility that assessment may not be valid and we don’t want our learners to miss out.

With quality assurance being influenced by advances in technology and software, we need to ensure that we follow data protection guidelines such as ensuring that our records cannot be accessed and that we put provisions in place for data breaches. We may also need to ensure that computer usage is in line with our organisations ICT policies.

Lastly you need to follow your sector guidance. These will largely be known in the qualification specification but nevertheless you’ll need to be aware of any relevant body that influences qualifications such as the Sector Skills Councils, the SIA, HSE, CQC and Resuscitation Council.