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Standardisation Policy

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Standardisation

 ‘Standardisation is a process to ensure that assessment criteria for a qualification, unit or component are applied consistently by assessors, moderators and verifiers’.

OCNSWR will ensure standards are consistent between all centres and between years by planning and delivering a comprehensive annual programme of standardisation events that enables Internal and External Verifiers to compare outcomes of assessment.  The standardisation events will allow OCNSWR to:

• Compare and confirm standards across different types of provision, e.g. Further Education, Schools and Voluntary Organisations
• Compare and confirm standards where different types of assessment are used to provide evidence of the achievement of a unit, e.g. question and answer, oral presentation, e-portfolio, etc.
• Identify and share good practice
• Identify issues to be addressed either by amendments to qualification assessment or to units within qualifications
• Compare and confirm standards over time, that is, between different years

Outcomes of standardisation events will be circulated and published within the network of OCNSWR recognised centres and will be used to inform future qualification development activity.

A schedule of standardisation events will be arranged over a two year rolling programme.  The schedule will be informed by a number of factors including:

• Level of take up of qualification and units
• Identified priorities from the Quality Committee

The schedule will be drawn up by the Director of Quality in collaboration with the Quality Reviewers.

The schedule will be presented to the Quality Committee for comments and ratification.

The schedule will be published on the OCNSWR website.

Specific units to be included in the standardisation event will be identified initially using a number of criteria:

• Units where issues have been raised by IVs, EVs, assessors, Regulators, and other stakeholders
• Numbers of learners taking units
• E-portfolios
• Use of units across centres
• Comparison of levels, where subjects are covered by units at more than one level in a qualification

Material to be considered at these events will be identified by Qualify Reviewers and collected by External Verifiers and by Internal Verifiers, who will collect samples of internally verified assessment materials.

All material presented must have been through the internal verification process.  This will include:

• Copies of completed assessments for the current year (where possible these should be anonymous)
• Copies of completed assessments for previous years