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IAM Quality Assurance and Certification Claiming Process

1. It is the centre's responsibility to ensure that all work submitted for assessment is the candidate's own work.

2. When a candidate has passed all the internal assessments, the two external tests and completed an e-portfolio of eight pieces of coursework from a range of subjects, their e-portfolio is ready for external verification.

3. The centre internally assesses, through the Marking Engine, that all exercises have been achieved. This information is recorded on the centre Summary of Teaching Group report form below. A copy of this form must be sent to Londonlearning when claiming certification.

4. The centre internally assesses that all coursework is fit for purpose. Teacher signatures on the Coursework Portfolio form record this information and each candidate includes a copy of this in their e-portfolio, as a scanned jpeg or .pdf file.

5. Every candidate claims the appropriate National Occupational Standard Skills achieved against each coursework piece of evidence, and records this information on their Coursework Pro-forma below.

6. The centre is responsible for ensuring that all candidates claiming certification have submitted at least four pieces of work where there is evidence of a skill at the level of the qualification e.g. level 2 for the Award.

7. The centre must keep a record of the internal verification of at least 25% of candidate e-portfolios. This record can be indicated on the Coursework pro-forma in column 'I'.

8. 15% - 20% of candidate portfolios recommended by the centre for achievement of the Award must be sent to Londonlearning... For each candidate, the centre must send the following :

a) Eight pieces of evidence of ICT skills application from a range of subjects
b) the 'IAM Coursework Pro-forma' e-Form
c) a completed 'Unit 3- Coursework portfolio' sheet
d) a copy of the Summary for Teaching Group... report which shows candidate's successfully completed assessment exercises.

This can either be done by uploading to the LL ftp site, or by burning on to a Compact Disc and posting to Londonlearning (Guernsey) Ltd at their UK office address:

LL(G) Ltd, Shaftsbury Heights, 43 Sixpenny Close, Poole Dorset BH12 4BF.

Centres should e-mail LL when this is done.

9. The External Verifier carries out their verification process and records their decision on the candidate's Coursework Pro-forma. When the External Verifier has completed their task, they notify IAM and the centre of the results. The centre then confirms the list of candidates who are to achieve their certificates to LL, and IAM dispatch certificates to the centre accordingly.

10. A centre must keep a record of candidate's e-portfolios and Internal Verification records for a minimum of three years.

11. LL produces an annual report to IAM on the qualification performance, candidate achievement and the assessment process.