Standardisation

Standardisation events will be held throughout the 2019/20 academic year at various locations across the country, including Liverpool, Coventry, London, Middlesbrough, Penrith and Portsmouth. (See Open Awards website for details). 

 The aims of a standardisation event are:

• To assist centres to improve their practice through peer review and feedback
• To enable Open Awards to gain an overview of practice in centres, and identify areas for improvement
• To contribute to the continuing professional development of Authorised Internal Verifiers

All sessions are free of charge for Open Awards centres lasting half a day (9.30am - 12.30pm) and give you the opportunity to share your learner work with other centres. As part of this activity, we would like to invite you to bring along a Unit you would like some support within thinking about assessment activities, to share in a workshop session.  This is not a requirement, but an opportunity for you to get some helpful feedback.  (If you do not have learner work to share, or do not wish to bring a Unit, you will still be able to benefit from attending the session.) Scroll down for dates 

PLEASE NOTE:The Standardisation event is appropriate for anyone involved in the delivery, marking, assessment or internal verification of Open Awards qualifications, who is able to bring samples of assessed work from their centre.  The event is strongly recommended for centres which do not currently have AIV status but would like to be considered for this in future.

• It is mandatory for centres with Direct Claims Status to have at least one AIV attend a standardisation event during the academic year.  If not, AIV status will be suspended and will need to be re-applied for.
• Centres may be charged for late cancellation (less than 2 working days before the event) or non-attendance.