skip to main content

ITC Level 4 Certificate in Leading the External Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice

Find a Course near you

This qualification is for those practitioners who lead the external quality assurance process for an awarding organisation and have a responsibility for managing the performance of other EQAs.

Delivery

Topics include:

Unit 1: Roles of practitioners, responsibilities, functions, concepts, principles, planning, monitoring, evaluation, sampling techniques, feedback, information management, using technology and critical comparison of various external quality assurance techniques.  

Unit 2:  Applying the principles of external quality assurance (EQA).  Including planning, evaluating and improving IQA, providing feedback advice and support, maintaining records and critical reflection.  This unit assessment requires  evidence procedures of applying external quality assurance usually on behalf of an awarding organisation.

Unit 3: Leading a team of external quality assurers.  Typically  the candidate will hold a planning or management role for the organisation that is carrying out the external quality assurance.

Features

Typical qualification training for the candidate includes:

  • Attendance at a training event at an approved ITC Centre.
  • 100 guided learning hours.
  • Production of all assessment evidence  within agreed , specified timescales.
  • Mentor support and professional discussion.
  • Successful completion will result in the candidate gaining an ITC Level 4 Certificate in Leading the External Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice.

NOTE:  This qualification is currently only delivered in-house at ITC FIrst, for ITC First EQA staff 

Downloads related to this qualification:

PDF

EQA Qualification Specification