The Vocational Assessor Handbook: Including a Guide to the QCF Units for Assessment and Internal Quality Assurance (IQA) - Softcover

Ollin, Ros; Tucker, Jenny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749461659 ISBN 13: 9780749461652

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2012

Synopsis

For assessors of QCF qualifications and NVQs, verifiers, school and FE college teachers, providers of training and work-based learning and those working towards PTLLS, CTLLS, DTLLS teaching qualifications, The Vocational Assessor Handbook contains a detailed guide to the following QCF units for assessment and internal quality assurance (verification) enabling readers to:
-Understand the Principles and Practices of Assessment (Knowledge and Understanding Unit)
-Assess Occupational Competence in the Work Environment
-Assess Vocational Skills, Knowledge and Understanding
-Understand the Principles and Practices of Internally Assuring the Quality of Assessment (Knowledge and Understanding Unit)
-Internally Assure the Quality of Assessment
-Plan, Allocate and Monitor Work in Your Own Area of Responsibility
Packed with the most up to date, detailed and reliable guidance, this is the only book for assessors and verifiers of vocational qualifications and is essential reading for anyone involved in vocational education.

Previously published as The NVQ Assessor, Verifier and Candidate Handbook.

About this title

About the Author:

Ros Ollin was a Senior Lecturer in Post-Compulsory Education and Training at the University of Huddersfield, and has more than 30 years' teaching, national and international consultancy experience in vocational teaching and assessment. Jenny Tucker was a Senior Lecturer in Training and Development at Sheffield College with extensive experience as an external verifier and as a consultant specializing in teaching, training and assessment.

Review:

"The plain English guide to the assessment process with excellent examples. I am sure this book will be the standard guide for many years to come." (Alexander Graham, former Chair, Training and Development Lead Body)

"Now more than ever, there is a general recognition that education and training lie at the heart of our economic and social futures. This book will help support effective training through effective assessment and quality assurance, and so help the investment we all make stretch even further and achieve even more in these straitened times." (Rob Wye, Chief Executive, Learning and Skills Improvement Service)

About this edition

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0749461659
• ISBN 13: 9780749461652
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 296