The following strategy incorporates all the requirements of the college internal quality
assurance and assessment policy,
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The purpose is to:
 Standardise assessment practice.
 Identify any risk to the integrity of the qualifications.
 Risk assess assessors and IQAs to identify support needs.
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Each course internal quality assurance (IQA) must use the college internal quality
assurance process, associated recording documentation and is responsible for
creating and working to an agreed sampling plan.
The Manager Quality Compliance (MQC) will ensure that each IQA has a copy of the
internal quality assurance and assessment polices, IQA 1-5 stages, assessor and
IQA guides, the assessment appeals process and fully understands the process and
record keeping requirements. This will then be documented and records held in the
internal quality assurance file held on the staff intranet (IQA file)
The IQA must commence the internal quality assurance sampling plan and records at
the beginning of the assessment process for all their assessors.
Each IQA must risk band their assessors according to the following model
o Green – assessors who are qualified & experienced and consistently
compliant – minimal sampling required
o Amber –those who are qualified & experienced but new to the college –
increase the sample until compliance is achieved
o Red – newly trained assessors or assessors with no formal qualifications and
who are new to the college – 100% sampling until full compliance is
achieved
The IQA is reminded that when using the minimum internal quality assurance
verification processes allowable, the activities must be carried out throughout the
period of assessment. (Under no circumstances must internal quality assurance only
take place towards, or at the end of the assessment process).
All unqualified internal quality assurance persons will have their verification decisions
overseen and countersigned by a qualified internal quality assurer.
A single unit will be identified by the LIQA for all internal quality assurers to sample
across all assessors. This will form part of the curriculum area standardisation
process. The IQA must ensure this unit is included in their sample.
The IQA may increase the extent of the sampling beyond the above if there are
concerns about assessment practice.
The internal quality assurance sampling plans and records must include all aspects
of the assessment process, assessment methods, observation requirements, a full
range of units are sampled for each and all assessors (CAMERA) and that there is a
clear audit trail. This will allow the IQA, LIQA, Manager Quality Compliance (MQC)
and external quality assurer (EQA) standards verifier (SV) to ensure that the agreed
process is being applied.
All concerns relating to assessment, e-Tracking of students and IQA should be
reported promptly to and resolved by the MQC.
Where it is necessary to vary from the sampling plan, the reasons should be
recorded and the alterations added to the IQA sampling plan and all relevant records.
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Updated 9/10/2014 Lynn Miles Manger Quality Compliance – cross college