The importance of planning and preparing the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice
Planning the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice
We plan our IQA activities in advance when delivering the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice. I wing a lot of stuff in my personal life and parenting but not when it comes to IQA. If you don’t plan properly, you are not going to IQA in the most efficient way. Its about being smart. You’ll need a written strategy to start as this will help you.
Who will be sampled in the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice
For the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice we will plan what is going to be sampled, who’s going to monitor it? Is it going to be you the IQA, or do you have other staff that can help you? When are you going to do it? You will need to observe training and assessor practice for the whole programme over time I might add. You should sample assessment records; learners work and assessors’ decisions. You should meet with learners and others involved and discuss the assessment process. You will complete standardisation activities with your assessors and hold team meetings. You will support trainers and assessors in their development.
Using the 5Ws in the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice
Now you know what we do for the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice. Now you need to plan how you will do it so use the 5Ws approach. Who, what, where, why, when and how? Who do you need to see? Which activities will you carry out? When and where will they take place? Why are you carrying out these activities? How will you monitor your assessors?
The IQA process should be no different to any other business audit where you are more likely going to audit different aspects at the different times. If you are familiar with ISO 9001, then it’s the same process and same purpose.
Having an IQA rationale in the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice
Your IQA system needs to start with a rationale or a purpose. This is why you conduct IQA. And don’t put your rationale is because the awarding body makes us do it. What are the benefits to your business and start with quality?
In our rationale for IQA of the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice, we start with safe and health and safety safe but ensuring IQA activities are ethical, we minimise plagiarism by learners and the work is considered authentic where learning hasn’t been compromised in any way.
Valid means the methods used to assess are in line with the qualification criteria and you may want to focus on a particular sector that you specialise in. Fairness is ensuring the methods used take into account all learners at the right levels and that activities are fit for purpose and that you can justify your decisions. And reliability means that IQA is consistent across qualifications and learners.
Our rationale for the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice is that assessment decisions are carried out by qualified assessors in each subject, and they are sampled by qualified internal assurers in the same subject and sampling rates are established in accordance with risk ratings. This ensures that the Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice is safe, valid, fair and reliable. It upholds the credibility of the Education and Training Academy and its awarding bodies.
Our IQA strategy will then set out how we achieve this.
