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PDA Toolkit

Part A - Introduction and overview

• Introduction
• Design principles, main changes and additional information
• Summary of processes and procedures for centres

Part B - Scoping

• Establishing the need
• Notifying SQA of proposal

Part C - Designing the qualification

• The Qualification Design Team
• Further market research
• National Occupational Standards

Part D - Development phase

• Key tasks in development phase
• Unit Writing

Part E - Validation

• Preparing a Validation Proposal Document
• The Validation Panel
• The Validation Event
• The Validation Report

Part F - Approval

• Approval

Part G - Implementation and Maintenance

• Producing an Arrangements document
• Review

Part H - PDAs at SCQF level 9+ 

• Background Information

SQA forms

• Validation report (Form HN V2) (104 KB)

Shells and checklists

• SQA's validation criteria (Appendix 1) (38 KB)
• PDA Arrangements document template (131 KB)
• Arrangements document template - instructions for use (24 KB)
• Checklist for use in the validation of PDAs (58 KB)
• Example of a validation meeting programme (20 KB)

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