{"id":178,"date":"2014-01-24T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2014\/01\/24\/digital-passport-validation\/"},"modified":"2014-01-24T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T13:02:00","slug":"digital-passport-validation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/digital-passport-validation\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Passport validation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The validation event for Digital Passport was held yesterday in the SQA offices in Glasgow. The purpose of a validation event is to check that new (or revised) qualifications fulfil a genuine need and are properly designed.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NzfJ18iKcy0\/UuJTHI20KOI\/AAAAAAAAXlQ\/C7yJBJxVg2s\/s1600\/DSC_0013.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NzfJ18iKcy0\/UuJTHI20KOI\/AAAAAAAAXlQ\/C7yJBJxVg2s\/s1600\/DSC_0013.jpg\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Validation events are &#8220;meetings of peers&#8221; &#8212; we&#8217;re all there to improve the qualification. The &#8220;panel&#8221; is made up of stakeholders (representing schools, colleges, employers and national bodies), and the Qualification Development Team (QDT) is made up of the people (usually classroom practitioners) who created the qualification.<\/p>\n<p>The validation event is a vital milestone in the development of a new qualification, and I am delighted to report that Digital Passport was validated, with some conditions and recommendations, which, I think, will improve it. But the basic structure of the award is unchanged. So, we (the development team) were delighted with the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>This means that there will be a new suite of National Progression Awards, at SCQF Levels 4, 5 and 6, available to centres from April of this year. Readers of this blog will know that we&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/12\/digital-passport.html\">pretty excited about Digital Passport<\/a> since we think it&#8217;s the most advanced digital literacy award in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Once we get the award fully validated and &#8220;on the system&#8221;, I&#8217;ll say more about the launch events that we&#8217;re planning. In the meantime, please <a href=\"mailto:hilary.weir@sqa.org.uk\">contact Hilary<\/a> for more information about this new award. I reassured the panel that we hadn&#8217;t forgotten about PC Passport. A refreshed version of PC Passport will be available to centres within the next few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The validation event for Digital Passport was held yesterday in the SQA offices in Glasgow. The purpose of a validation event is to check that new (or revised) qualifications fulfil a genuine need and are properly designed. Validation events are &#8220;meetings of peers&#8221; &#8212; we&#8217;re all there to improve the qualification. The &#8220;panel&#8221; is made up of stakeholders (representing schools, colleges, employers and national bodies), and the Qualification Development Team (QDT) is made up of the people (usually classroom practitioners)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}