John Carr Senior External Verifier.

2. John Carr Senior External Verifier.

3. SQA New approach to Quality Assurance (HN & SVQ)March 2014

4. SQA new approach to Quality Assurance. • Piloted by SQA for last 3 years. • Full implementation in all centres in 2014-2015. • Currently only HN & Vocational Qualifications. • Volunteer Colleges in 2013-2014.

5. Summary of key changes. • Refreshed Quality Assurance Criteria. • Introduction of outcome ratings. • Introduction of Action Plans • Introduction of Sanctions.. • Refreshed Qualifications Verification Reports (QVR)

6. Specific Quality Criteria for:-

7. Quality Criteria. Six Categories: - Management of a centre. - Resources. - Candidate Support. - Internal Assessment & Verification. - External Assessment. - Records/Data Management.

8. Overall Outcome Rating determines. • No actions. • Action Plan • Sanctions.

9. Qualification Verification Visits • Matching Evidence against criteria. • High Impact Criteria • Medium Impact Criteria • Low Impact Criteria • Sufficient Evidence • Insufficient Evidence • No Evidence

10. Qualification Verification Activity • Visit Planning. • Agreeing Sample. • Verifying assessment decisions and evidence. • On-line reporting. • Colouringin. (traffic lights) • EVs lose some autonomy. System dictates the outcome actions/sanction

11. 5 possible ‘outcome ratings’ for each category. • Significant Strengths. • Strengths outweigh weaknesses. • Some Strengths & Some Weaknesses • Weaknesses outweigh Strengths • Significant weaknesses. • Overall outcome rating for the verification visit. Defaults to the lowest outcome rating.

12. Q.V. Reports. Refer to Example!