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The best assessor’s guide: second edition (apprenticeships)
£30.00
Overview
The second edition of this best-selling handbook is for everyone with responsibility for vocational assessment, whether new to the role, an experienced assessor or responsible for training assessors.
Completely revised and updated to reflect recent changes in assessment practice, this guide explains the role of the assessor in apprenticeships (England), how to approach the different stages of assessment, and how to prepare learners for vocational qualifications. The guide contains help with:
- Principles of assessment: the different types of assessment; the different roles of the assessor; becoming and assessor
- Assessing standards and qualifications: who’s who; qualifications frameworks;
- Planning and carrying out assessment: principles; reaching a robust decision; recording
- Legal implications
- Improving assessment practice
- The assessment methods: observation; professional discussion (including panel interviews and vivas); work products (showcases); using others (witness testimony); projects and assignments; simulations, realistic work environments and testing.
The guide contains help with:
- Principles of assessment: the different types of assessment; the different roles of the assessor; becoming an assessor
- Assessing standards and qualifications: who’s who; qualifications frameworks;
- Planning and carrying out assessment: principles; reaching a robust decision; recording
- Legal implications
- Improving assessment practice
- The assessment methods: observation; professional discussion (including panel interviews and vivas); work products (showcases); using others (witness testimony); projects and assignments; simulations, realistic work environments and testing.
Here’s what one user says about this second edition of The best assessor’s guide:
I use all of Hilary’s publications on assessment and quality assurance and find they are a great source of reference. I think The best assessor’s guide (apprenticeships edition) is her bravest one yet. At a time when the industry struggles to manage and comprehend the changes we all face, this book goes straight to the core of good assessment practice. Clear links to the new terminology of apprenticeship standards, end point assessment, and the additional skills all assessors will need to develop. If you want to be ready for the new approach to apprenticeships and provide the highest levels of training, coaching and assessment support to your learners, then this is a must read. It will provide you with the detailed knowledge of all things apprenticeship-related, and provides a good basis of understanding for the Regulated Qualification Framework (RQF) and those bodies responsible for its regulation.
Joey Greenwood, Team Smart.