Planning and Delivery of HND Programmes Janet Strain

Introduction What procedure to go through when setting up a course. What key factors to identify which will make for smooth running of programmes What resources you will need

The first document to review is the Course Tutor Guide Course Tutor Guides include suggested order of delivery of units Units must be delivered in Year 1 and Year 2 order Course Tutor Guides include integration opportunities Course Tutor Guides should be used in planning stage Course Tutor Guides

Create a Master Folder for each unit. Contents of Master Folder: –Unit Specification –Teaching Schedule for Unit –Assessments –Solutions –Re-assessments –Internal Verification records –Standardisation records –Teaching materials Planning

Staff Each centre will have a team who can deliver the Units in the framework. The staff should be encouraged to review Units and materials and write their own assessment instruments. Recommend that the assessment instruments are submitted for prior verification.

Download Unit Specification every time unit is delivered May have changed Unit Specification

The topics for each Unit specification should be reviewed to see who best to deliver each of them – who has the experience and/or relevant qualifications to do this? What materials do you have available to help candidates to learn what is included in the Unit specification? How are candidates assessed?

Preparing Prepare teaching schedules Identify when assessments should take place for each subject and prepare a master assessment schedule to ensure no overburdening Identify topics and units which feed into the Graded Unit and ensure that candidates know the importance of these and they are delivered in the correct order.

Identify possible integration opportunities Decide if integration is an option Liaise with tutors and course leader Create integrated teaching and assessment schedule, if appropriate Integration

Assessments Assessments should meet all of the current legislation in any area. They must be brought up to date if they do not meet the criteria – download ASP every time Unit is delivered All Assessment Instruments should be subject to review by the assessors and answers to tasks checked and discussed. Assessment instruments should be subject to Internal Verification.

Assessment decisions It is important to ensure that the assessment conditions are met in all cases. It is important to update the solutions every year to show all answers from candidates which will be acceptable as meeting the criteria of the Unit Specification. Details of assessment decisions and feedback must be recorded on student scripts.

With students studying up to 8 units in a semester, there can be a burden of assessment for both tutors and students Good practice to create a qualification assessment plan matrix indicating where assessment falls for each unit Course Team completes qualification assessment plan matrix Assessment Planning

Outcome 1Outcome 2Outcome 3Outcome 4Outcome 5 Business Accounting (F84M 34) Practical exercise Supervised with access to pro forma layout only Open-book report generated under supervised conditions. Questions and report linked to case study. Business Law: An Introduction (F84P 34) Open-book Written/oral Case study with given questions Open-book Written/oral Case study with given questions Open-book Written/oral Case study with given questions Economic Issues: An Introduction (F7J8 34) Integrative assessment change Set questions Controlled conditions with defined amount of notes Open-book Short investigative exercise An extract from a plan for Business with Accounting

Unit Name\ Week Business Accounting (cont in Semester 2) S1S1 S2S2 Business Law S1S1 S2S2 S3S3 Economic Issues An Introduction S1S1 S2S2 Summative Assessments

Unit Name\ Week Business Accounting (cont in Semester 2) F1F1 S1S1 F2F2 S2S2 Business Law F1F1 S1S1 F2F2 S2S2 F1F1 S3S3 Economic Issues An Introduction F1F1 S1S1 F1F1 S2S2 Summative and Formative Assessments

Unit Name\ Week Business Accounting (cont in Semester 2) F1F1 S1S1 R1R1 F2F2 S2S2 R2R2 Business Law F1F1 S1S1 R1R1 F2F2 S2S2 R2R2 F1F1 S3S3 R3R3 Economic Issues An Introduction F1F1 S1S1 R1R1 F1F1 S2S2 R2R2 Summative Formative and Reassessments

Unit Name\ Week Business Accounting (cont in Semester 2) F1F1 S1S1 R1R1 F2F2 S2S2 R2R2 Business Law F1F1 S1S1 R1R1 F2F2 S2S2 R2R2 F1F1 S3S3 R3R3 Economic Issues An Introduction F1F1 S1S1 R1R1 F1F1 S2S2 R2R2 Summative Formative and Reassessments

Unit Name\ Week Activity – create your own plan!

Timetabling Prepare timetables to suit centre team Identify topics which usually present difficulties Ensure core units contributing to Graded Units are covered first Build in additional study sessions to address any issues

Standardisation Different assessors for the same Unit should meet to discuss their marking and feedback. They must agree on what is acceptable and what will not meet the criteria of the Unit. How do the team reassess the candidates? What should be remediation/re-do and what is a reassessment?

Planning should include reviewing EV reports for all units verified Good practice – appropriate for other units Action points – should have been actioned Recommendations – ensure that recommendations are carried out EV Reports

Course Team/Subject Team should meet to discuss Record decisions and discussions on pre-delivery Internal Verification and Standardisation records EV Reports

Teaching Materials Materials – student materials and tutor materials should be available. Is there enough content at the correct level? What do assessments for the topic ask the students to do? Practice assessments to help them to prepare should be written.

Up to Date Is the information in the materials the most up to date available? Do the staff have knowledge of the most up to date legislation in the UK which will affect the Units contents? Are there any additional resources available which might help in delivery?

Resources Materials Text books On line resources UK Government information Staff

Any questions?