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Introducing Unit Specifications and Unit Assessment Support Packs
Introducing Unit Specifications and Unit Assessment Support Packs
Hospitality : Practical Cake CraftNational 5
Mhairi A MackayPrincipal Verifier
Unit AssessmentUnit Assessment
Assessments can be designed to provide evidence across more than one Unit or Outcome – combined assessments
Evidence can take a number of forms – may be a combination of written, practical, oral and/or recorded
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 StructureUnit Structure
National 5
Cake Baking Cake Finishing Practical Activity – Assessment Task
standards remain the same have no hierarchical Unit structure as there is only one level –
National 5 develops cake-baking and cake-finishing skills, and creativity in
cake finishing, in a range of production methods embeds food safety and hygiene skills, and how to work safely and
hygienically at all levels develops organisational skills in the context of managing time and
resources has an added value practical activity assessment that provides
personalisation and choice In the first two years, it is mandatory to use SQA materials
Key points: Hospitality Practical Cake Craft UnitsKey points: Hospitality Practical Cake Craft Units
Unit Specifications National 5Unit Specifications National 5
Unit - Cake Finishing Outcome 1 – Prepare for finishing cakes and other baked items
Assessment Standards1.1 Selecting suitable fillings and coatings1.2 Planning the stages of finishing1.3 Selecting, accurately weighing and measuring the ingredients, following recipes where appropriate, and taking account of proportions where necessary1.4 following safe and hygienic working practices
Unit SpecificationsUnit 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 should be gathered in combination with other Outcomes where possible, either from this Unit or in combination with the Outcomes from the Cake Baking unit. Evidence may also be gathered for individual Outcomes where appropriate.
Unit SpecificationsUnit Specifications
For this Unit, learners will be required to provide evidence of their ability to:
creatively apply finishing techniques to a range of cakes and other baked items
work safely and hygienically
Unit Assessment Support Packages - purposeUnit 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 featuresUASPs – 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
Hospitality: Practical Cake Craft UASPs
Hospitality: Practical Cake Craft UASPs
Package 1 Unit by Unit approach– discrete assessment tasks
for each Unit and combining of skills within Units N5
Package 2 Combined Unit Approach
Package 3 Portfolio Approach
N5 Internal Assessment of Course ComponentsN5 Internal Assessment of Course Components
Controlled assessment is SQA’s approach to developing assessments (setting), the conditions of assessment (conducting), and marking assessments (marking).
SQA is introducing controlled assessment for non-question paper components of the Added Value Unit and new National Courses at National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher.
N5 Practical Activity N5 Practical Activity
Controlled assessment
SQA led activity – SQA sets the assessment and sets tightly controlled assessment conditions
will be internally marked by centre staff in line with SQA marking instructions
marking will be quality assured by SQA
Moving onMoving on
Workshop 1 and 2 will give you the opportunity to look at the Unit Specifications and Unit Assessment Support Packages in detail.
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