SQA Accreditation Research

Any research carried out by SQA Accreditation or in partnership with others will be made available, where appropriate.  Research activity in SQA Accreditation is carried out by the Research Officer, Rowena McConkey, and agreed at the beginning of each financial year with the Accreditation Committee. 

The Research Officer is also responsible for managing any other research or evaluation work that is carried out on behalf of SQA Accreditation. 

Assessment Strategy Research Project (2008)

 In 2005, the National Occupational Standards Board appointed an external consultancy firm to undertake a research project entitled "Review of NVQ and SVQ Assessment Strategies".  The review identified that there was a concern among stakeholders in relation to the occupational competence requirements  of assessors and verifiers within some assessment strategies. 

Due to this, follow up work was commissioned in 2007 to determine whether this concern related directly to assessment strategies and how these may be amended to ensure that they do not act as barriers to recruitment in future.

Mackinnon Partnership were commissioned to carry out this work, which was completed in December 2007.  The published report is now available by clicking on the link below.

Assessment Strategy Research 2008.pdf GRAPHIC: PDF Icon.

 SVQ Research Project 2008

This piece of in-house research was completed in March 2008.  It examines the rlationship between SVQ up-take, cost and funding availability and examines how the existence of competition has effected the market for specific SVQs.

SVQ Research Project