GCSE Double Award Health and Social Care

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GCSE (Double Award ) Health and Social Care
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Health and Social Care

• Equivalent to two GCSEs
• Grade recorded twice A A - G G
• Curriculum time to equate with two GCSEs
• Designed to be delivered over two years but from
  September 2003 can be offered as a one year
  programme.
• First certification will be Summer 2004.

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Health and Social Care

• Strong vocational content
• Three units (equally weighted)
• -two internally assessed
• -one externally assessed()
• Unit 1 Health, Social Care and Early Years
• Unit 2 Promoting Health and Well Being
• Understanding Personal Development and
  Relationships ()

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Delivering Health and Social Care

• There is no set order to the delivery of the
  units. However there are several things to
  consider when planning the order of delivery
• Staff expertise
• Resources
• Test dates
• Does one unit help with the underpinning
  knowledge of another
• Is one unit more easily accessible for students
  at the start of the course
• The organisation of work placements and visits

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Unit Structure

• Each unit gives specific information to help both
  students and staff.
• What you need to learn
• Banner for students for internally assessed units
• Assessment criteria grid
• Guidance for teachers

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Unit Delivery

• It is essential that students are aware of the
  requirements to meet the grading criteria and
  feel confident in their own ability. Some of the
  strategies which might facilitate this are
• Go through the assessment objectives with them(
  this may need to be repeated on several
  occasions)
• Break down the unit into more manageable chunks
• Evidence can be achieved in stages
• Ensure students cover all aspects of the unit to
  provide them with a complete overview and feel
  for the unit
• The unit is assessed after completion of all the
  objectives

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The Assignments

• The work set should
• be set out clearly and concisely with a final
  deadline
• enable students to fully meet the evidence
  requirements
• be accessible to students working at all levels
• allow students to produce different types of
  evidence
• be set in an appropriate vocational context

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The Value of Induction

• This provides the opportunity to give students a
  clear overview of
• the course structure and content
• the methods of delivery
• assessment procedures
• expectations of staff
• could possibly take place in July and reaffirmed
  in September

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Good Practice

• Variety in the style of delivery of the course
  content
• Review and evaluation skills for both staff and
  students
• Timetabling to facilitate visits and work
  placements
• Forge strong links with the local community,
  businesses and voluntary organisations

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Good Practice To Aid Assessment

• At the start of the unit give a set deadline date
  ready for marking
• Work should be presented in a logical manner with
  clearly defined sections
• The work should be correctly referenced
  throughout and include a bibliography
• There are no restrictions on length but the work
  will probably be 2,000 to 4,000 words
• Mark strictly to the banner and assessment grid
• Give prompt feedback and an indication of
  possible improvements

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Internal Assessment

• Assessment should take place on completion of the
  individual unit, not at the end of the course
• As part of the assessment process the assessor
  should annotate the work to indicate the location
  of evidence
• The evidence may take many forms-
• Photographs, posters, videos and audio
  cassettes,witness statements, written reports,
  declaration of guidance, authentication statements

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Internal Assessment (contd)

• Students can achieve marks in different bands for
  each criterion
• The full range of marks should be used as
  appropriate
• Access to the higher bands requires work which
  demonstrates increased breadth and
  depth,coherence,evaluation,analysis, originality
  and independence

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Internal Assessment ( contd )

• Mark Band 1 - Grade F
• (some support and guidance, student relies on
  support and this restricts their mark to this
  band regardless of final outcome
• Mark Band 2 - Grade C
• (limited assistance, initial support, teacher
  reacts to questions and suggests ideas, this
  restricts their mark to bands 1 2 regardless of
  final outcome )
• Mark Band 3 - Grade A
• ( independent, occasional assistance but
  mainly monitors own progress therefore bands 1, 2
  and 3)

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Internal Standardisation

• Internal standardisation should ensure that there
  is both accurate and consistent marking across
  the units and assessors
• It is advisable to sample work of all assessors
  and each of the units
• It is vital that the centre ensures
  standardisation of marks ready for external
  moderation

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External Assessment of Unit 3

• This contributes one third to the final grade
• Examinations are externally set and marked
• For Health and Social Care the tests are not
  tiered
• First examination in January 2004
• Examinations will subsequently be available in
  both January and June in H SC (this will not be
  the case in all subjects)

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External Assessment (contd)

• Only one resit will be allowed and a charge
  levied
• The higher mark counts
• Examinations are 1hr 30 mins duration
• Specimen papers and mark schemes are available
  from Awarding Bodies
• The timing of the delivery of this unit needs to
  carefully considered to match the test dates
• The first test could be used as a formative
  assessment tool

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External Moderation

• The two internally assessed units are subject to
  external moderation
• This ensures that National Standards are being
  met
• Marks will be adjusted if they are not in line
  with these standards
• This process will be by remote sample and take
  place at the end of the course in June
• Work which needs to be improved will go through
  the same process and be re-submitted the
  following June

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Grading

• The mark for each unit will be translated into a
  uniform mark ( UMS 0 - 100 ) by the Awarding
  Body
• Each unit will be reported as both an UM and a
  grade A - G ( or U)
• The final grade will be determined by aggregation
  of the UMS for the three units
• The total of these marks will give a
  qualification grade of AA - GG ( or Ungraded )