ERIC Number: ED363768
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1993
Pages: 28
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ISBN: ISBN-1-85338-311-2
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Standards in Action. Using National Standards for Human Resource Management and Development in Further Education. 3. Assessor and Internal Verifier Awards.
Further Education Unit, London (England).
This booklet is designed to assist General National Vocational Qualifications (GNVQ) coordinators, National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ) coordinators, staff development managers, enterprise unit managers, and assessor training coordinators in ensuring that sufficient numbers of staff members at British further education colleges are trained and certified as assessors and internal verifiers. Discussed in Section 1 are the various national standards for assessment and verification and existing assessor certification requirements. The purposes and scope of the process of training and accrediting staff as assessors and internal verifiers are clarified in Section 2. Weighed in Section 3 are various considerations in choosing an awarding body. The following assessor/verifier training delivery models are described in Section 4: external consultants, a consortium approach, external courses, a systemic model, internal consultancy, a combination internal consultancy/systemic model, and an exponential approach. Outlined in Section 5 are the steps in the training implementation process. Chapters 6 and 7 deal with resourcing and quality assurance, respectively. Contains a list of 16 resource organizations and a 55-item bibliography. (MN)
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Programs, Delivery Systems, Evaluators, Foreign Countries, Management by Objectives, National Standards, Personnel Evaluation, Personnel Management, Postsecondary Education, Quality Control, Staff Development, Technical Institutes, Training Methods, Vocational Education
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Further Education Unit, London (England).
Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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