The Arrangements Document for HND Interactive Media (Group Award Code: G9AY 16) is available on the SQA website for download by clicking here The Units are available via the SQA website and all Unit titles and codes are available within the arrangements documentation. We are in the process of writing Assessment Exemplars for the following Mandatory Units within the HND Group Award: Sound and Vision for InteractivityInteractive Media CompositionDesigning and Developing an Interactive Active ProductHuman Computer InterfaceProfessional and Legal Issues…
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The Computing for Change group has met a couple of times to consider ways of improving the performance indicators for HNC/D Computing. As part of that work, I agreed to look at specific issues with the assessment of these awards. A sub-group of the Qualification Support Team is meeting this Saturday to look at “problem” assessment exemplars and also consider ways of integrating assessments (across units) to reduce the assessment load. I met with Caroline this morning to discuss the…
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SFEU have arranged two events based around the CIW Site Designer Foundations Masterclass. These are being held on Tuesday 23rd & Wednesday 24th June 2009 at the Glasgow Metropolitan College. To register online for these events as well as find further information on start times, venue location, agenda etc please click on the URLs below: http://www.sfeu.ac.uk/events/show/3207http://www.sfeu.ac.uk/events/show/3202 Please note that this is not an SQA hosted event so if you have any queries, please get in touch with the events organiser…
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SQA has received significant sums of funding from the European Social Fund for several years, and we were recently told that this would continue until, at least, 2011. As part of this funding, I’ve been asked for ideas for resources to support NC and NPAs in my area. This could be additional assessment exemplars or teaching and learning material or online learning or assessment material. In fact, the financial support is available for e-assessment at any level (including HN). So…
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I attended an internal SQA staff update session this morning and one of the key messages coming out of it was that e-assessment “should be the default position” for new qualifications. In other words, rather than justify its use, we should justify when it’s not used. By and large, we’re still producing paper assessments – and sometimes assessments that are actually barriers to e-assessment – so this is important news. I plan to produce some guidance for my assessment exemplar…
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This is a reminder that we have two consultation events coming up in both Glasgow and Dundee. If you intend to come along but have not yet registered, please do so using the URLs below as these spaces are on a first come first served basis. The first event will take place on Thursday 4th June at 1330 hours in the Crowne Plaza, Congress Road, Glasgow – If you would like to register for this event, please click on the…
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I received a query this morning about UCAS points for PC Passport, which made the check the current position. Some time ago, I posted a message indicating that PC Passport (at SCQF Level 6) was likely to attract UCAS credit. Well, it’s now official. From 2010, PC Passport at Higher level (SCQF 6) will get 45 UCAS points (approx. the same as a Higher “C”).
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Shirley and I have been planning for the forthcoming validation events for six new NPAs. On Monday, 1 June, there will be two validations events – one in the morning and one in the afternoon to validate the following new NPAs: Software Development (Level 5) Website Enterprise (Level 5) Computer Hardware and Software (Level 5) Digital Media Production (Level 6) Digital Media Photography (Level 5) Social Software (Level 4) We have got Panel members identified, including college, industry and Sector…
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We are still looking for a couple of exam exemplar writers for the HNC Information Technology Graded Unit. These are for availability Winter 2009, therefore this would be work over the summer period alongside a specified vetter/verifier. If you are interested in becoming involved in this project, please contact me direct (caroline.douglas@sqa.org.uk).
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As many of you will know, we are developing a large suite of NPA awards, three of which were validated a couple of months ago resulting in a large number of conditions to be addressed before the awards were acceptable. This morning we held the re-validation event for the following awards: Digital Media Basics (SCQF 4) Digital Media Editing (SCQF 5) Digital Media Animation (SCQF 5). This time the awards were validated without conditions. There were a large number of…
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