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Introducing Unit Specifications and
Unit Assessment Support Packs
National 3, 4 and 5
Unit Assessment
 Unit assessment as part of learning not after learning.
 Assessments can be designed to provide evidence across
more than one Unit or Outcome – combined assessments
 Flexible and open Evidence Requirements in Units
 Greater range of techniques and methodologies for
assessment – encouraged through Unit assessment support
packages
 More opportunities to gather naturally occurring evidence –
assessment as part of learning and teaching
Unit Structure
National 3
National 4
National 5
Scottish
Scottish
Scottish
British
British
British
European and World
European and World
European and World
Added Value Unit:
Assignment
Key points: History Units
 Evidence is flexible, standards remain the same
 Feature the best approaches of the current History
Units
 Have a hierarchical Unit structure that provide
progression from National 3 to Higher
 Units prescribe skills only.
 Units have no required content only very broad
context.
 Outcome 1 is totally transferable between contexts.
 Outcome 2 is context but not content specific
Unit Specifications
Unit
Historical Study: British
(National 5)
Outcome 2
Draw on and apply
knowledge and
understanding of British
historical events and themes
by:
Assessment Standards
2.1
Describing, in detail,
and mostly accurately, a British
historical event or theme
2.2
Explaining, in detail,
a British historical event or
theme
2.3
Analysing a British
historical event or theme
Unit Specifications
Evidence Requirements for this Unit:
 Assessors should use their professional judgement,
subject knowledge and experience, and understanding
of their learners, to determine the most appropriate ways
to generate evidence and the conditions and contexts in
which they are used.
 Evidence can take a number of different forms and may
be a combination of practical, written, oral and/or
recorded evidence, as appropriate to the assessment
activity and the needs of the individual candidate.
 Evidence may also be gathered for individual Outcomes
where appropriate.
Unit Specifications
In the assessment task presented (Appendix 1), the
evidence to be gathered may include:
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Candidates’ written responses
Slides in support of an oral presentation
Candidate’s visual product
A photograph or recording of a visual product
Candidates’ notes used to support an oral presentation
Video/audio recording
Assessor checklist
Assessor observation notes
Unit Assessment Support
Packages - purpose
UASPs can be used to:
• Assess your candidates
• Adapt for your own assessment programmes
• Help you develop your own assessments
UASPs – key features
 Valid from August 2013
 Designed to encourage professional judgement
 Provide broad-based tasks – allow assessors to
choose appropriate context and forms of evidence
 Show range of approaches to generating assessment
evidence
 Give information on the type of evidence which
could be gathered and how this is to be judged
against Assessment Standards
History UASPs
Package 1
 Unit by Unit approach N3, N4 and N5
Package 2
 Combined approach across Units N3 and N4 and N5
Package 3
 Portfolio approach across Units N3, N4 and N5
National 4 Added Value Unit
 Makes the Course more than the sum of its parts
 Builds on current Course assessment and Group
Award approaches
 Defined as breadth, challenge and/or application
as outlined in Building the Curriculum 5
 May involve accumulation, assimilation,
integration and/or application of skills,
knowledge and understanding
 Controlled assessment –setting, conducting and
marking
N4 AV Unit: History Assignment
 Focus on challenge and application of History
skills
 Unit Specification and Unit Assessment Support
package
 Assesses skills in researching, which will include
choosing a question, collecting evidence,
organising, and preparation for the presentation
of findings.
 Assesses skills in presentation of findings
 Internally marked pass or fail
N4 Assignment
Controlled assessment
This assignment is:
 set by centres within SQA guidelines
 conducted under a high degree of supervision
and control
 Evidence will be internally marked by centre staff
in line with SQA marking instructions.
 Marking will be quality assured by SQA.
 The performance will be recorded.
Moving on
 Workshop 1 and 2 will give you the opportunity
to look at the Unit Specifications and Unit
Assessment Support Packages in detail.