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Knowing your subject and knowing how to teach that particular subject are two different bodies of knowledge. A practical guide to the established methods assessors expect, the innovations genuinely worth adopting, and how to evidence both — with a free one-page audit to download.
Reasonable adjustments make assessment fair for learners with disabilities and additional needs without lowering the standard. A practical guide for assessors and IQAs, with examples for dyslexia, visual impairment, physical disability, anxiety and more.
Standardisation is meant to make sure every assessor reaches the same decision from the same evidence. Too often it becomes an update meeting with a signing-in sheet. A practical guide to activities that work, a ready-to-use agenda, and records an external quality assurer will value.
A good IQA sampling plan is risk-based, spread across the learner journey and easy for an external quality assurer to follow. A practical guide to building one with the CAMERA model, with a worked example for a small training provider.
If you trained as an assessor before 2010, you probably hold D32/D33 or A1. If you are starting now, you will be looking at TAQA. A guide to how the assessor and quality assurance qualifications have changed, what each one in the current suite is for, and whether your old certificate still counts.
Observation is the most important assessment method in work-based learning, and the observation record is the only lasting proof of what the assessor saw. A practical guide to writing records that another assessor, an IQA or an external quality assurer could rely on.
Becoming an NVQ or work-based assessor is a common next step for experienced practitioners who want to pass on their skills. A step-by-step guide to the experience and qualifications you need, solving the "no learners, no qualification" problem, and where the role can lead.
Witness testimony lets people who see a learner at work every day contribute to their assessment. Used well, it saves time and strengthens evidence. Used badly, it is one of the most common reasons portfolios fail sampling. A practical guide for assessors and IQAs.
The way you order and connect what you teach shapes whether learners can build on what they know. Explore five evidence-informed approaches to topic sequencing — schemata, logical ordering, linking, revisiting and chunking — with a practical step for each.