HND in Health and Social Care Practice (Social and Community Work) Further Information
Delivering quality teaching and learning
A high-quality teaching and learning experience should include qualified and experienced lecturers, an interactive and engaging curriculum, motivated and inspired students, and a support system that caters for the pastoral as well as academic interests of students.
- Providing access to library facilities which have, as a minimum, available copies (physically and/or electronically) of all required reading material
- Access to research papers and journals
- Utilising a virtual learning environment (VLE) to support teaching
- Working with local employers to present real-life case studies
- Creating schemes of work that embrace a range of teaching and learning techniques
Listening to the student voice
An induction programme should consist of the following:
- A course programme overview, including an introduction to the Themes, work placement requirements and the PLAD
- Preparing for lessons
- Effective engagement in lectures and seminars
- Making the most out of the tutor
- Assignment requirements
- Referencing and plagiarism
- Centre policies
- Academic study skills.
Teaching and learning techniques
- Lectures and seminars
- Workshops
- Tutorials
- Work-based Learning
- Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs)
- Blended learning
- Guest speakers
- Field trips
ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK
ASSESSMENT
Pearson BTEC Higher Nationals have always allowed for a variety of forms of assessment evidence to be used, provided they are suited to the type of learning outcomes being assessed. For many units, the practical demonstration of skills is necessary and, for others, students will need to carry out their own research and analysis, working independently or as part of a team.
The Example Assessment Briefs give you information on what would be suitable forms of evidence to give students the opportunity to apply a range of employability or transferable skills. Centres may choose to use different suitable forms of evidence to those proposed. Overall, students should be assessed using varied forms of evidence.
These are some of the main types of assessment:
- Written reports, essays
- In-class tests or examinations
- Creation of planning documents
- Work-based projects and portfolios
- Academic posters, displays, leaflets
- PowerPoint (or similar) presentations
- Recordings of interviews/role plays
- Work placement logbooks and reflective journals
- Workplace observation of practice and assessment records
- Presentations with assessor questioning
- Professional discussions
- Time-constrained assessment.
FEEDBACK
Issuing assessment decisions and feedback
Once the assessment team has completed the assessment process for an assignment, the outcome is a formal assessment decision. This is recorded formally and reported to students. The information given to the student:
- Must show the formal decision and how it has been reached, indicating how or where criteria have been met
- May show why attainment against criteria has not been demonstrated
- Must not provide feedback on how to improve evidence but how to improve in the future.
Guidance on Resubmission and Repeat
Resubmission opportunity
An assignment provides the final assessment for the relevant learning outcomes and is normally a final assessment decision. A student who, for the first assessment opportunity, has failed to achieve a Pass for that unit specification shall be expected to undertake a reassessment.
- Only one opportunity for reassessment of the unit will be permitted.
- Reassessment for course work, project- or portfolio-based assessments shall normally involve the reworking of the original task.
- For examinations, reassessment shall involve completion of a new task.
- A student who undertakes a reassessment will have their grade capped at a Pass for that unit.
- A student will not be entitled to be reassessed in any component of assessment for which a Pass grade or higher has already been awarded.
Repeat Units
A student who, for the first assessment opportunity and resubmission opportunity, still failed to achieve a Pass for that unit specification can:
- Repeat a unit if permission is granted with the centre’s discretion and at the Assessment Board
- Study the unit again with full attendance and payment of the unit fee
- Achieve a result capped at a Pass for the overall unit grade for a successfully completed repeat assessment
- Only repeat the assessment once.
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