2. John Carr
Senior External Verifier.

3. SQA New approach to Quality Assurance (HN & SVQ) March 2014

4. SQA new approach to Quality Assurance.
Piloted by SQA for last 3 years.
Full implementation in all centres in
Currently only HN & Vocational Qualifications.
Volunteer Colleges in

5. Summary of key changes. Refreshed Quality Assurance Criteria.
Introduction of outcome ratings.
Introduction of Action Plans
Introduction of Sanctions..
Refreshed Qualifications Verification Reports (QVR)

6. Specific Quality Criteria for:-

7. Quality Criteria. Six Categories: - Management of a centre.
- Resources.
- Candidate Support.
- Internal Assessment & Verification.
- External Assessment.
- Records/Data Management.

8. Overall Outcome Rating determines.
No actions.
Action Plan
Sanctions.

9. Qualification Verification Visits
Matching Evidence against criteria.
High Impact Criteria
Medium Impact Criteria
Low Impact Criteria
Sufficient Evidence
Insufficient Evidence
No Evidence

10. Qualification Verification Activity
Visit Planning.
Agreeing Sample.
Verifying assessment decisions and evidence.
On-line reporting.
Colouring in. (traffic lights)
EVs lose some autonomy.
System dictates the outcome
actions/sanction

11. 5 possible ‘outcome ratings’ for each category.
Significant Strengths.
Strengths outweigh weaknesses.
Some Strengths & Some Weaknesses
Weaknesses outweigh Strengths
Significant weaknesses.
Overall outcome rating for the verification visit. Defaults to the lowest outcome rating.

12. Q.V. Reports.
Refer to Example!