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The tasks expected of an assessor include:
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planning and delivering vocational training programmes and workshops
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observing and assessing candidates in their workplace
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examining candidates’ portfolios of evidence
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questioning candidates about how they would deal with non-standard situations
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providing feedback and offering advice if the standards are not met
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signing off the award when all the requirements have been met
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keeping records of candidates’ progress
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attending meetings with other assessors
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working closely with training staff and candidates’ managers.
In the UK a VQ assessor needs one of the following qualifications:
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Level 3 Award in Assessing Competence in the Work Environment – for assessing
occupational competence in the workplace
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Level 3 Award in Assessing Vocationally Related Achievement – for assessing vocational
skills and knowledge outside the workplace, for example in classrooms or workshops
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Level 3 Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement – for assessing both
occupational competence in the workplace, and skills, knowledge and understanding
outside the workplace.
An assessor is usually required to hold a qualification at level 3 or above in the area of work they
wish to assess; for example a Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care or equivalent if assessing
care assistants. Older qualifications, such as level 3 NVQs can still be used to meet this
requirement. Event Horizon will expect any assessor to hold a current qualification in the subject
area that they will assess. ‘Current’ in this context means that the assessor can demonstrate that
they have worked in their specific area at Level 3 or equivalent within the last 3 years.
Role of Quality Assurance Verifiers
An internal or external verifier provides assurance that an organization’s assessment methods
meet the awarding organization’s quality standards.
An internal verifier (IV) requires:
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Level 3 Award in Assessing Competence in the Work Environment
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Experience of assessing in the same, or similar, occupational area to the one they will be
verifying.
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EITHER Level 4 Award in Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and
Practice – for those who quality assure the work of assessors
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OR Level 4 Certificate in Leading the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes
and Practice – for those who manage and plan the work of a team of assessors.
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An external verifier (EV) needs:
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Level 3 Award in Assessing Competence in the Work Environment
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Experience of assessing in the same, or similar, occupational area to the one you will be
verifying.
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EITHER Level 4 Award in External Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice – for
those checking assessment procedures for an external organization such as an awarding
body
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OR Level 4 Certificate in Leading the External Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes
and Practice – for those who manage the work of a team of external verifiers.
MAKING EVENT HORIZON A QUALIFICATIONS CENTRE
Event Horizon ran one of their basic courses in September 2015, to which Ken was invited as an
observer. Discussions before and during the event with Tom and Charlie concluded that it would be
beneficial to the company if they were to become a registered qualifications centre to deliver a
number of different qualifications, not the least of which would be the suite of SFX qualifications
being developed in this project.
Event Horizon was put in touch with the awarding organisation, Homeland Security Qualifications
(HSQ) to begin the process. Tom was also put in contact with the International School for Security
and Explosives Education (ISSEE) which has an Assessor Centre that will train, assess and qualify new
assessors and Internal Verifiers.
On 11 Nov 15, Event Horizon formally registered its intent to become a qualifications centre with
HSQ.
Tom and Charlie attended an assessor course and subsequently completed their assessments on the
job when they were assessing trainee.
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CASE STUDY – GJR Pirotecnia e Explosivos
BACKGROUND
G.J.R. – Pirotecnia e Explosivos
, SA is a manufacturer of pyrotechnic articles, black powder and a
distributor of explosives products. Other business areas are the display of fireworks shows and the
application of explosives at quarries and construction works.
GJR joined the project to test the procedures for the implementation of occupational standards.
They expected to change some of our practices and develop knowledge and share our experience.
We will be involved in the project with five persons.
GJR was supported by the University of Coimbra(UC), one of the oldest universities in continuous
operation in the world and one of its largest higher education and research institutions. It is
organized into eight different faculties according to a wide range of fields, granting academic
bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in arts & humanities, laws, sciences and technologies,
medicine, pharmacy, sports, social sciences and economics. UC has approximately 25,000 students,
and hosts one of the largest communities of international students in Portugal.
The University of Coimbra (UC) has a strong relationship with the military and civil industry of
explosives in Portugal. The Laboratory of Energetics and Detonics is an infrastructure built in 1990
under the cooperation of the Portuguese Society of Explosives (SPEL) and the University of Coimbra
and it has been the main laboratory facility for the support of experimental research about
explosives, pyrotechnics and propellants.
Many teachers and researchers from Mechanical, Chemistry and Geology & Mines of University of
Coimbra have taught in several courses about explosives and pyrotechnics characteristics and
application in military and civil use. Several master’s degree theses and PhD theses have been made
about subjects related with civil and military explosives, detonation, initiation, thermal
decomposition, shock generator, prediction of detonation and combustion, environment effects. In
parallel teachers and researchers have produced several papers and participated in international
conferences (ICT Conference, APS conference, Detonation Symposium, Pyrotechnic seminar,
international symposium in Fireworks, ICDERS, etc). At the same time many teachers and
researchers of UC has been participating in several European projects about explosives.
Many projects related with explosives have been performed by teachers and researchers of the UC.
Most of them have been developed in cooperation with European partners: in military area under
the framework of the European Defence Agency (EDA) and financed by Ministry of Defence (e.g.
Formulation and Production of New Energetic Materials (FPNEM)), in the civil area under the
framework of the EU Leonardo da Vinci programme and committed to education and certification of
competencies and skills (e.g.. EUExcert, ESSEEM, EUExNet). The cooperation of teachers and
researchers of the UC with the Portuguese explosives and pyrotechnics industry has been performed
in several areas: training courses, short and large contracts with military divisions and civil private
companies, co-supervision of stages for master students, seminars and workshops. Several teachers
and researchers of UC are/were members of the Board of several societies or committees (European
Federation of Explosives (EFEE); IGUS Group, Portuguese Association of Studies and Engineering of
Explosives (AP3E) and Technical committee of Conferences and Journals about Energetic Materials).
In outline, GJR’s sub-project has the following elements:
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Understanding vocational qualifications
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