ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Role and Requirements of Assessor

• This links to a university manual that gives guidance on the role of the mentor and details the skills required for supervising and assessing.
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• A site with criteria for judging the competence of student teachers that could be applied to assessing practice educator competency.
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• A link to a university manual that defines the responsibilities of both practice educator and student.
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Responsibility in Practice Assessment

• This is the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education's code of practice on assessing placement learning. It includes material on roles and responsibilities of the relevant parties in the assessment of practice-based learning.
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• This is a report on a study carried out by the Nursing and Midwifery Council that explored the reasons for not failing incompetent students.
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Quality in Assessment

• This is the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education's code of practice on assessing placement learning.
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• An academic article exploring issues of reliability and validity in assessment which can be applied to work based assessment.
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• This website gives a detailed overview of different perspectives on reliability and validity. Some sections are quite complex, but it also contains more straightforward material that might be of use to practice educators.
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• A university's procedures on monitoring quality of assessments.
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• This is a link to an academic paper providing an introduction to some of the important ideas associated with performance assessment procedures.
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• An academic article exploring issues of quality in assessment which can be applied to work based assessment.
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• An overview of best practice in work based assessment.
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Recording of Assessment

• A site consisting of ten values that should underpin assessment in general terms, but which can be applied to work-based assessment.
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• This is a link to a Higher Education Academy paper on portfolios that raises key issues in their use that can be applied to students' practice experiences.
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• This site provides an overview of good practice in recording evidence.
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