1. Effective Standardisation

2. What is Standardisation?
The process of
Ensuring that all assessors (and IVs) share a common understanding of the standards prior to assessment
Ensuring the consistency and reliability of assessors’ judgements

3. What are the benefits of effective standardisation?
Assessors feel more supported
Assessors become more competent
Assessors become more confident
Assessors make better judgements
Centres become more successful in external verification

4. Methods of effective standardisation
Profession discussion
Evidence Review
Blind marking/Dual marking
Quiz
Case study

5. What resources are available?
Unit Specification
CASP
External Verifier Report
Candidate evidence

6. When should standardisation take place?
Before assessment takes place, it is essential that all assessors share a common understanding of the standards.

7. When should standardisation take place?
After an assessment has taken place, standardisation exercises should identify any discrepancies between assessors and allow adjustments to be made to remedy these.

8. When should standardisation take place?
All the time – it is an ongoing process!
It is particularly helpful when:
You are delivering a Unit for the first time
Unit specs or standards change
You are using a new assessment instrument
A new assessor starts
External verification has identified issues with 4.6