Level 3 Award in Understanding the Principles & Practices of Assessment

This unit assesses a candidate assessor’s knowledge of the principles and practices of assessment in a learning and development context.

The learning outcome’s the taught session will cover:
Understanding the principles and requirements of assessment
Understanding the different types of assessment methods
Understand how to plan assessment
Understand how to involve learners and others in assessment
Understand how to make assessment decisions
Understand own contribution to the quality of assessment
Understand how to manage information relating to assessment of occupational competence
Understand the legal and good practice requirements in relation to assessment

This knowledge only unit allows anyone who is interested in or needs to know about assessment - but is not a practitioner – to acquire knowledge and information about the processes.