Planning and
Delivery of HND
Programmes
Janet Strain
Introduction
• What procedure to go through when
setting up a course.
• What key factors to identify which will
make for smooth running of programmes
• What resources you will need
Course Tutor Guides
• The first document to review is the Course Tutor
Guide
• Course Tutor Guides include suggested order of
delivery of units
• Units must be delivered in Year 1 and Year 2
order
• Course Tutor Guides include integration
opportunities
• Course Tutor Guides should be used in planning
stage
Planning
• Create a Master Folder for each unit.
• Contents of Master Folder:
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Unit Specification
Teaching Schedule for Unit
Assessments
Solutions
Re-assessments
Internal Verification records
Standardisation records
Teaching materials
Staff
• Each centre will have a team who can
deliver the Units in the framework.
• The staff should be encouraged to
review Units and materials and write
their own assessment instruments.
• Recommend that the assessment
instruments are submitted for prior
verification.
Unit Specification
• Download Unit Specification every time
unit is delivered
• May have changed
Unit Specification
• The topics for each Unit specification
should be reviewed to see who best to
deliver each of them – who has the
experience and/or relevant qualifications
to do this?
• What materials do you have available to
help candidates to learn what is included
in the Unit specification?
• How are candidates assessed?
Preparing
• Prepare teaching schedules
• Identify when assessments should take
place for each subject and prepare a
master assessment schedule to ensure no
overburdening
• Identify topics and units which feed into
the Graded Unit and ensure that
candidates know the importance of these
and they are delivered in the correct order.
Integration
• Identify possible integration
opportunities
• Decide if integration is an option
• Liaise with tutors and course leader
• Create integrated teaching and
assessment schedule, if appropriate
Assessments
• Assessments should meet all of the current
legislation in any area.
• They must be brought up to date if they do
not meet the criteria – download ASP every
time Unit is delivered
• All Assessment Instruments should be
subject to review by the assessors and
answers to tasks checked and discussed.
• Assessment instruments should be subject to
Internal Verification.
Assessment decisions
• It is important to ensure that the assessment
conditions are met in all cases.
• It is important to update the solutions every
year to show all answers from candidates
which will be acceptable as meeting the
criteria of the Unit Specification.
• Details of assessment decisions and
feedback must be recorded on student
scripts.
Assessment Planning
• With students studying up to 8 units in a
semester, there can be a burden of
assessment for both tutors and students
• Good practice to create a qualification
assessment plan matrix indicating
where assessment falls for each unit
• Course Team completes qualification
assessment plan matrix
An extract from a plan for Business with
Accounting
Outcome 1
Outcome 2
Outcome 3
Outcome 4
Outcome 5
Business
Accounting
(F84M 34)
Practical exercise
Supervised with access to
pro forma layout only
Open-book report generated under
supervised conditions. Questions and
report linked to case study.
Business
Law: An
Introduction
(F84P 34)
Open-book
Written/oral
Case study
with given
questions
Open-book
Written/oral
Case study
with given
questions
Economic
Issues: An
Introduction
(F7J8 34)
Integrative assessment
change
Set questions
Controlled conditions with
defined amount of notes
Open-book
Written/oral
Case study
with given
questions
Open-book
Short
investigative
exercise
Summative Assessments
Unit Name\ Week
Business
Accounting (cont
in Semester 2)
Business Law
Economic Issues
An Introduction
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
S
1
28
29
30
31
32
S
2
S
1
S
2
S
1
S
3
S
2
33
34
35
Summative and Formative
Assessments
Unit Name\ Week
19
Business
Accounting (cont
in Semester 2)
F S
1 1
Business Law
Economic Issues
An Introduction
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
F
2
F
1
S
1
F
1
F S
2 2
S
1
28
29
30
31
32
S
2
F
1
F
1
S
3
S
2
33
34
35
Summative Formative and
Reassessments
Unit Name\ Week
19
Business
Accounting (cont
in Semester 2)
F S
1 1
Business Law
Economic Issues
An Introduction
20
21
22
23
R
1
F
1
24
25
26
F
2
S
1
27
28
29
S
2
30
31
32
33
34
R
2
R F S
R F
S
R
1 2 2
2 1
3
3
F
S
R F
S
R
1
1
1 1
2
2
35
Summative Formative and
Reassessments
Unit Name\ Week
19
Business
Accounting (cont
in Semester 2)
F S
1 1
Business Law
Economic Issues
An Introduction
20
21
22
23
R
1
F
1
24
25
26
F
2
S
1
27
28
29
S
2
30
31
32
33
34
R
2
R F S
R F
S
R
1 2 2
2 1
3
3
F
S
R F
S
R
1
1
1 1
2
2
35
Activity – create your own plan!
Unit Name\ Week
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
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Timetabling
• Prepare timetables to suit centre team
• Identify topics which usually present
difficulties
• Ensure core units contributing to Graded
Units are covered first
• Build in additional study sessions to
address any issues
Standardisation
• Different assessors for the same Unit should
meet to discuss their marking and feedback.
• They must agree on what is acceptable and
what will not meet the criteria of the Unit.
• How do the team reassess the candidates?
• What should be remediation/re-do and what
is a reassessment?
EV Reports
• Planning should include reviewing EV
reports for all units verified
• Good practice – appropriate for other
units
• Action points – should have been
actioned
• Recommendations – ensure that
recommendations are carried out
EV Reports
• Course Team/Subject Team should
meet to discuss
• Record decisions and discussions on
pre-delivery Internal Verification and
Standardisation records
Teaching Materials
• Materials – student materials and tutor
materials should be available.
• Is there enough content at the correct
level?
• What do assessments for the topic ask the
students to do?
• Practice assessments to help them to
prepare should be written.
Up to Date
• Is the information in the materials the
most up to date available?
• Do the staff have knowledge of the most
up to date legislation in the UK which
will affect the Units contents?
• Are there any additional resources
available which might help in delivery?
Resources
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Materials
Text books
On line resources
UK Government information
Staff
Any questions?