Qualifications Update:N3 and N4 Business

N5 Business Management

Qualifications Update:N3 and N4 Business

N5 Business Management

Alistair WylieAlistair WylieQualifications ManagerQualifications ManagerNational QualificationsNational Qualifications

Humanities, Arts & BusinessHumanities, Arts & Business

Developing qualifications Developing qualifications - drivers- drivers

• Progression

• More open and flexible requirements

• Assessment which supports learning

• Refreshed and relevant contexts for learning

• Personalisation and Choice

• Robust and credible

Key pointsKey points• Skills-based Units provide flexibility and choice

• Provides opportunities to apply skills, knowledge and understanding to real business situations

• Builds knowledge and understanding progressively up the levels

• Some new topics such as Social Enterprise

• Combines the best aspects of current Intermediate and Standard Grade Courses

• Added Value is assessed at N4 by an assignment and at N5 by a question paper and an assignment

Unit StructureUnit Structure

National 3Business

National 4Business

National 5Business

ManagementBusiness in Action Business in Action Understanding

Business

Influences on Business Influences on Business Management of People and Finance

Management of Marketing and

Operations

New Quality Assurance arrangementsNew Quality Assurance arrangements• Covers National 1 to National 5 from 2013/14

• Promotes shared understanding of national standards through a collaborative and partnership approach

• New ‘Nominee’ role - provides a pool of nationally trained experts

• Intense verification in the first 3 years, thereafter an approach based on information gathered

• Verification in Nov/Dec, Feb and Apr/May - allows for early identification of issues and support/guidance to be given

Assessment Support Schedule 2012/13 Assessment Support Schedule 2012/13

Oct 12 N3 to N5 Unit Assessment Support (Package 1)

Feb 13 N3 to N5 Unit Assessment Support (Package 2)

Feb 13 N5 Specimen Question Paper

Apr 13 N3 to N5 Unit Assessment Support (Package 3)

Apr 13 N5 Specimen Coursework

Apr 13 N4 Added Value Assessment Support

Business/Business ManagementUnit Assessment

National 3 to National 5

Business/Business ManagementUnit Assessment

National 3 to National 5

Unit assessmentUnit assessment• Flexible and open Assessment Standards and Evidence

Requirements in Units

• Greater range of techniques and methodologies for assessment – encouraged through Unit assessment support packages

• Assessments can be designed to provide evidence across more than one outcome or Unit – combined assessments

• More opportunities to gather naturally occurring evidence – assessment as part of learning and teaching

Unit Assessment Support Unit Assessment Support packages – purpose packages – purpose

Assessment support packages will be provided which you can use to:

•Assess your candidates

•Adapt for your own assessment programmes

•Help you develop your own assessments

Unit Assessment Support Unit Assessment Support packages – key featurespackages – key features

• Valid from August 2013

• Designed to encourage professional judgment

• Provide broad-based tasks – allow assessors to choose appropriate context and forms of evidence

• Show range of approaches to generating assessment evidence

• Give information on the type of evidence which could be gathered and how this is to be judged against Assessment Standards

Assessment Package 1Assessment Package 1Pack 1 – Unit by Unit approach•Each Unit has a pack which covers every assessment standard •Each pack is ready to use and all meet minimum competence•Each pack shows only 1 way of assessing that particular set of assessment standards

Business/Business ManagementAdded Value Assessments:

- National 5 Course Assessment- National 4 Added Value Unit

Business/Business ManagementAdded Value Assessments:

- National 5 Course Assessment- National 4 Added Value Unit

Adding Value – National 4, Adding Value – National 4, National 5National 5

• Each Course at National 4 and National 5 includes assessment of Added Value

• For National 4, the added value is in an Added Value Unit - not graded

• For National 5, the added value is in the Course Assessment - graded A - D (as at present)

National 5 – National 5 – assignment• 30 marks (question paper 70 marks)• Prepare a short business report • 4 pages + appendix• Choose an organisation and an area of

focus

National 5 – National 5 – assignmentEXAMPLES•Marketing function – pricing strategies•Finance – finance available for expansion•HR – recruitment and selection policies•Operations – production methods

National 4 Added Value Unit - National 4 Added Value Unit - BusinessBusiness

• Choosing, with support, an aspect of a new small business to consider

• Preparing a simple business proposal, based on research findings

• Presenting the business proposal to others using a suitable method