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.