Ensuring quality for externally verified/moderated assessment

This document is to help clarify issues around policy and practice for externally verified/moderated assessments and to provide updates on developments in this area.  Please use this at your quality assurance team meetings, and where possible, work through the document in sections to ensure that you are putting into practice current City & Guilds policy. 

Please make your colleagues aware of Ensuring quality by forwarding them this document.  This can be done from the panel on the right.

Guidance on internal verification of NVQs

The awarding bodies such as ourselves are committed to ensuring that NVQs retain value and credibility nationally and to make it clear what consistutes good and poor practice.  Published by DfES in 2001, the Joint Awarding Body Guidance reamains an important document for internal verifiers.

Joint Awarding Body Guidance on Internal Verification of NVQs (pdf file - 0.6mb)

The document below has been produced in response to demand from our centres.  It serves as an update to the Joint Awarding Body Guidance on Internal Verification of NVQs publication and has a specific City & Guilds focus.  It contains various exemplar forms that can be used by centres to support the internal verification process and these are available to download individually from the list of related documents at the bottom of the page.

Guidance on internal verification of NVQs (pdf file - 0.9mb)