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Your Feedback

Why we need your feedback

We need feedback from all of our customers and stakeholders — those of you who are working with Scotland’s learners and who have experience of education — to ensure the success of qualifications development and the implementation of Curriculum for Excellence.

We are receiving your feedback through many sources, for example:

the Have Your Say facility on our website
formally established groups such as our Curriculum Area Review Groups (CARGs) and Qualifications Design Teams (QDTs)
correspondence from customers and stakeholders
targeted engagement activities, for example with classroom teachers, learners, employers, parents/carers, professional teaching associations and higher education institutions

We are publishing draft documents at each stage of our process. This allows us to share our evolving thinking with you. This is important as each stage in the process informs the next. It also allows you to become familiar with the development and to provide feedback at each stage. To date, we have had more than 2,100 comments on the documents we have published on our website.

We have now published the final documents for Courses at National 2 to Higher. Read the thank you message from our Chief Executive (148 KB). Use the subject drop-down menu to find the documents for each subject.

What happens to your comments?

Feedback from Have Your Say is collated and presented to our CARGs and QDTs. This feedback is then discussed as part of the development process, both at a curriculum area and subject level.

Feedback from CARGs, QDTs and the website is also considered by the Review of Courses Coordination Groups (ROCCGs) who oversee the work of the SQA Curriculum for Excellence development team and our quality assurance and validation processes.

Each stage of our qualifications development process informs the next and we work closely with our CARGs and QDTs to explore issues, develop thinking and test proposals on an ongoing basis.

Find out more about the work of our CARGs and QDTs, and how members were nominated.

Your feedback so far

We really do welcome feedback and thank everyone who has taken the time to comment. Here are some examples of how feedback has been considered:

We have moved content in the Sciences to allow for smoother progression between levels.
A Higher Course will now be developed for Fashion and Textile Technology. The prefix ‘Practical’ is being dropped from Fashion and Textile Technology Courses at all levels to better reflect the progression to the new Higher Course.
There are changes to Mandatory Content at National 5 and Higher History
Units at National 4 and National 5 will be amended before final publication in April 2012 to bring them into line with the Health and Food Technology Higher Units, in terms of the language used and the level of practical skills development required. This will assist with progression between the levels
We are developing new Courses in Music Technology from National 3 - Higher.
The Course title of Hospitality: Practical Cake Baking and Finishing has been changed to Hospitality: Practical Cake Craft
Following feedback on Added Value Units, there are no projects at National 4
Common skills sets across the sciences have been introduced
There is a new Course in Environmental Science
There is a new skills focus in Maths Courses, organised into application, reasoning and other processing skills
There are new Lifeskills Maths Courses at National 4 and National 5
There is a focus on performance in the added value of Physical Education Courses and the portfolio at National 4 has been dropped
In the Care (National 5) Course the question paper has been dropped in favour of a project
Work is ongoing on Units in Music
The Course title of Computing and Information Science has been changed to Computing Science as a result of feedback

Here is a summary of the feedback received so far, but please note that there is no January - June 2011 summary of feedback for Access as the first draft documents for Access 2 - the draft Course Rationales and Summaries - were published in August 2011: