MASTHEAD: Core Skills

Support Materials for Delivery and Assessment of Core Skills

Range of materials developed to support the delivery and assessment of Core Skills including examples of types of activities that could be used, learner work mapped to Core Skills Units and SCQF level.

Essential Skills for Life and Work

Core Skills Promo Poster

Internal Assessment Reports

Prior Moderation

Prior moderation is a service that is offered, free of charge, to centres who devise their own instruments of assessment or who wish to significantly change items from the National Assessment Bank to suit their particular local/learner needs.

Prior Moderation is carried out by an SQA Moderator who compares the assessment materials against the Core Skills Units to determine whether they meet the required standards.

Materials for prior moderation should be submitted to the Assessment Moderation Section. If you want to find out more about this service, please phone 0845-213 5345.

Guide to Assessing Workplace Core Skills

Guide to Assessing Workplace Core Skills - helps centres understand how to assess Workplace Core Skills.

There is also a Q and A leaflet about the use of Core Skills in Skillseekers and Modern Apprenticeships, download below:

Guidelines on Building a Portfolio of Evidence for Core Skills in Community Settings

Guidelines on Building a Portfolio of Evidence for Core Skills in Community Settings

Core Skills Portfolio Communication, Access 3

GRAPHIC: Core Skills Portfolio Communication, Access 3 booklet cover This document has been produced to accompany the Guidelines on Building a Portfolio of Evidence for Core Skills in Community Settings. The main purpose of this document is to illustrate to tutors and learners what a portfolio being put forward for accreditation at SCQF level 3 might look like.

Core Skills Portfolio Communication, Access 3

Communication/Numeracy - Examples of activities referenced to Core Skills

Communication/Numeracy - Examples of activities referenced to Core Skills at Access 3

Communication - Examples of learner material mapped to Core Skills

Core.Sport and Core.Hospitality

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Learning and teaching resource packs contextualising Core Skills in:

  • ICT @ SCQF level 5
  • Numeracy @ SCQF levels 4 and 5


 

Core.Hospitality

Learning and teaching resource packs contextualising Core Skills in:

  • Communication @ SCQF level 4
  • Numeracy @ SCQF levels 4 and 5
  • ICT @ SCQF level 5

CD based materials that could be used for formative assessment or for contributing towards a folio for developing learner work. Available free of charge from core.skills@sqa.org.uk

Understanding Standards

LOGO:Understanding StandardsIf you are involved in the delivery and assessment of Core Skills then you will love this website.

It provides:

  • An explanation of the key features of each of the Core Skills with comparisons between levels
  • Examples of common mistakes in assessments and how to avoid them
  • Illustrations of good practice in assessments in a range of contexts
  • Examples of candidate responses within a range of scenarios, to enable self calibration.


http://www.understandingstandards.org.uk

Core Skills: Initial Screening Tools and Core Skills: Diagnostic Tool

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Core Skills: Initial Screening Tools

Provides a rough indication of a learner’s existing knowledge and skills.

Core Skills: Initial Screening Tools:

  • Communication and Numeracy (on-screen interactive CD, pre Access 2 to Intermediate 2 level)
  • ICT (paper based assessment at Access 2 level)

A tutor guidance pack and learner information sheet is also available on the CD in WORD format so you can customise the packs to suit the needs of your learners by loading CD, selecting "My computer", right clicking on icon "Core Skills (D:), Open, Support Materials or you can download a copy now by clicking on the appropriate pack below:

 

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Core Skills: Diagnostic Tool

Provides detailed feedback on a learner’s existing IT skills through a series of on-screen tasks.

A Diagnostic Tool for:

  • ICT (on-screen interactive CD, Access 3 to Intermediate 2 level)

A tutor guidance pack and learner information sheet is also available on the CD in WORD format so you can customise the packs to suit the needs of your learners by loading CD, selecting "My computer", right clicking on icon "Core Skills (D:), Open, Support Materials or you can download a copy now by clicking on the appropriate pack below or you can download a copy now by clicking on the appropriate pack:

Copies of the Core Skills Initial Screening Tool and ICT Diagnostic tool are available free of charge and can be requested through customer@sqa.org.uk