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Guidance and advice for the assessment of NVQs

A resource to provide help and advice for those who are responsible for assessing:

Operations in the Community Level 3

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Who is this guidance book for?

The Guidance and Advice book has been aimed at people involved in the assessment of performance against the national occupational standards (NOS).

National initiatives such as the introduction of Integrated Personal Development Systems (IPDS) and National Vocational qualifications (NVQs) have seen team leaders and managers improving their assessment practice and performance management skills.

This book has been produced to provide a common understanding of the requirements of the standards and support a consistency of approach to assessments.

The publication can be used for the assessment of NVQ 3 Operations in the Community or for IPDS purposes.

We have tried to bring together all the information available from the standards, the Common Evidence Profiles and the experience of people who have been working with the standards for some time.

We have talked to external verifiers and ensured that the guidance supports ‘best practice methodology’ by using a variety of sources of evidence that will occur naturally in the workplace, including the use of direct observation.