{"id":460,"date":"2011-03-31T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2011\/03\/31\/re-assessing-graded-units-2\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T09:41:00","slug":"re-assessing-graded-units-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/re-assessing-graded-units-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-assessing Graded Units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an interesting discussion this morning, among colleagues in other subject areas, about the rules for resubmitting Graded Units, either to convert a fail to a pass or to upgrade a result.<\/p>\n<p>We found some useful guidance on this topic in a document entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/files_ccc\/Implementation_of_Graded_Units_guide_CA4405.pdf\">Guidance on the Implementation of Graded Units in HNC\/Ds<\/a> [PDF]. There is information on page 23 (about project-based GUs) and page 31 (about exam-based GUs). The key thing is that the re-assessment is based on a substantially different project or examination. It&#8217;s up to centres whether re-assessment will be offered, and how much is charged, and suggests at least one opportunity for re-assessment is built into the programme.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:caroline.douglas@sqa.org.uk\">Contact Caroline<\/a> for more information about the Graded Units in Computing awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an interesting discussion this morning, among colleagues in other subject areas, about the rules for resubmitting Graded Units, either to convert a fail to a pass or to upgrade a result. We found some useful guidance on this topic in a document entitled Guidance on the Implementation of Graded Units in HNC\/Ds [PDF]. There is information on page 23 (about project-based GUs) and page 31 (about exam-based GUs). The key thing is that the re-assessment is based on&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\/460","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=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}