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An awarding body needs to be content that it meets the regulations in terms of it being able to demonstrate to its regulator, whoever that is, that the assessment method is fit for purpose, valid and reliable.

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If it can't do that, then the regulator will obviously ask questions about the purpose and validity of the qualification and its assessment.

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Previously, we had codes of practice that determined what we did, and these were being replaced by general recognition conditions, which had more variety, possible variety.

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within them that we could adopt. So we as an awarding organisation wanted to be sure that

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any assessment methodology we adopted was valid, reliable and manageable and all the

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other things that the regulation said they had to be. To start the project we first of

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all looked at all the research by talking to our colleagues in the Cambridge Assessment

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Research Division and we tried to do that.

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through all the existing research to do with assessment methods and vocational

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qualifications. We found very little which I think is symptomatic of the

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issues that we were facing, i.e. there was not any great direction or consistency in

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the way that awarding organisations select assessment methods for vocational

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qualifications.

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we developed a range of tools that would help staff and all stakeholders internal and external

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decide on the most valid and reliable forms of assessment for these qualifications.

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We're currently implementing the tools that we developed and the early signs are that they are

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a really useful practical tool to ensure validity and reliability of the assessment. We will obviously

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refine them as time goes on and we get feedback from their implementation and we hope that

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they will play a valuable part in contributing to the information and knowledge in the vocational

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assessment arena.