The e-Assessment and Learning Department offer free training sessions for our on-line assessment (SOLAR) system and also in the area of e-portfolios. SOLAR online assessment – am session (www.sqasolar.org.uk)Skills 4 Work Deskspace e-portfolio – pm session (www.sqadeskspace.org) New dates for training are listed below and will take place at SQA Offices, Optima Building, 58 Robertson Street, Galsgow G2 8DQ (Map available on request) 21st May 2009 28th May 2009 We are offering 2 places* per centre at each of the…
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I attended the second meeting of the Computing for Change group this afternoon. The meeting was held at Glasgow Metropolitan College. I updated people on the actions that the QST planned to carry out to review SQA units and assessments. Today’s meeting focussed more on the factors other than the curriculum such as teaching and learning, and support for Computing lecturers. A number of actions were agreed, including a comprehensive review of the statistics relating to student performance in HN…
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The QST for HN awards met this afternoon. This committee advises me about how courses are actually being implemented and suggest changes that could be be made to improve things. Today’s meeting was very busy, with almost 20 forms received from centres with suggestions for changes, clarifications or simplifications. Most of the suggestions were accepted and you will see some changed units or improved assessments as a result. The QST is going to play a major role in addressing the…
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I got good news today about the Digital Literacy award. The Scottish Prison Service has offered to provide this qualification to every prisoner in Scotland. Hopefully, for those who choose to do it, it will be help them update their skills prior to re-entering society. This qualification is a good basic introduction to computing and the Internet, and could be used by all sorts of students. Contact Shirley for more information.
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thanks everyone for your requests for the surplus Leckie and Leckie PC Passport and Internet Safety books. I can confirm that there are no more free books left. They can still be purchased direct from Leckie and Leckie on: http://www.leckieandleckie.co.uk/products/buy_online.asp
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I met with Genny Dixon of E-Skills this afternoon to discuss how SQA is going to create new SVQs from the revised National Occupational Standards (NOS). E-Skills has been working on the IT User Standards for the past year and they are now (almost) in final form. My team’s task is now to create equivalent SVQs to match the new Standards. We’re hoping to do this over the next five months and have the new qualifications available to centres from…
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Please find attached a copy of the PC Passport update letter below: PC Passport Update letter Th letter will also appear on the PC Passport page on the SQA web site.
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Look out for a PC Passport update letter that should be hitting the desks of SQA Co-ordinators in schools, colleges and training providers This letter contains useful information on: End dates of original PC Passport units and awards Approval to offer new PC Passport e-assessment of PC Passport SQA Support Materials Leckie and Leckie materials Assessment Support Packs Support and information
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We are still busy working away on the conditions which the validation panel placed on the above award and these will be addressed by the end of this week. We will then be taking the necessary steps to finalise all new HN Units within the award and put the framework on our awards system so that it is available to centres ASAP (with our original timescale target of Spring 2009). I shall post further updates as this work progresses.
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February 23, 2009 - Bobby -
After the recent validation event, when we were asked to go away and think again about the NPAs we planned to produce, the development team reviewed its planned awards and came up with slightly revised proposals, reducing the number of NPAs by two – and introducing a new one on Photography. Shirley e-mailed centres this afternoon to ask staff to complete a short survey about our plans. The survey can be found here, and I’d appreciate if you would take…
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