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Assessment Policy
The purpose behind developing an assessment policy is to make explicit the functions of the processes linked to assessment to all those involved with the process - the teachers, lecturers or trainers, as well as the senior management teams and other stakeholders such as parents, governors, employers and training providers.
Done well, it will quality assure the processes taking place and provide consistency across any institution, for the benefit of all learners.
By using the navigation to the left of the page, you will be able to complete each step in the process in turn. By clicking on the separate steps, you will be able to decide what you have to complete in the next stage of the process.
The Process
By following the steps outlined below, you will be able to produce a working document, agreed by all who use it along with a set of procedures that will allow you to monitor activities at regular intervals and change practices where they are deemed to be unfit for purpose. The entire process is based upon the CIEA Professional Framework. To view the Professional Framework, click here.
Although this process may look linear - it has been deliberately written in this way to help in understanding the process - it is in fact cyclical in nature. Just as this process is cyclical, so the processes of assessment are cyclical in nature, as summarised in the following diagram:
