Retail Skills Evidence Requirements.docVIP

Evidence Requirements for the Retail?Skills qualifications For use from 1st September 2009 Evidence Requirements for the Retail Skills qualifications Developed jointly with City Guilds, EDI, OCR, Edexcel and ABC Awards A list of the qualifications covered by these evidence requirements appears in Appendix 1 of this booklet. Assumptions: 1. Within the criteria for assessment there are four stages – plan, observe, record and decide. The last of these stages is about the assessor being confident that the candidate is competent. Many of the units in the Retail Skills qualifications are ‘specialist units’ where it is unlikely that the assessor will have the all the specialist occupational competence themselves. In each case, we will expect the assessor to use ‘expert witness testimony’ (EWT) from an experienced peer or the candidate’s line manager. The requirements for EWT are set out in the Assessment Strategy for the Retail Skills qualifications. 2. The Assessment Strategy will maintain the need for the candidate’s line manager to be involved in the assessment process to the extent that the candidate cannot be signed off as competent if the line manager does not agree. 3. Imported units will maintain the evidence requirements already prescribed by the originating SSC/SSB however there is no need to duplicate the qualification’s Assessment Strategy as Assessment Strategies are relevant to qualifications rather than units. The exception to this would be any specific rules on simulation. 4. Unit summaries will accompany each unit and be produced by Skillsmart Retail. Within the Qualifications and Credit Framework the summary appears towards the bottom of the unit template. 5. Each awarding organisation will provide unit assessment guidance as appropriate to their own organisation, but the unit-specific evidence requirements will be common to all awarding organisations. Unit No: B.1 Unit Title: