Qualifications Update:Higher Health and Food Technology

Qualifications Update:Higher Health and Food Technology

Qualifications Update:Higher Health and Food Technology

Alistair McKenzieQualifications Development Manager

Qualifications Update:Higher Health and Food Technology

Alistair McKenzieQualifications Development Manager

Developing qualifications Developing qualifications - drivers- drivers

• Progression

• More open and flexible requirements

• Assessment which supports learning

• Refreshed and relevant contexts for learning

• Personalisation and choice

• Robust and credible

Key pointsKey pointsHigher Health and Food TechnologyHigher Health and Food Technology

• Skills based Units provide flexibility and choice

• Allows learners to study the relationships between health, nutrition and the functional properties of food and consumer issues.

• Builds skills, knowledge and understanding progressively up the levels

• Combines the best aspects of current Higher Course

• Added Value is assessed by an assignment with the focus on: Breadth, Challenge and Application. Offers opportunities for personalisation and choice

Purpose and aims of the CoursePurpose and aims of the CoursePurpose

Develop and apply the knowledge and skills of research, analysis and evaluation in order to make informed food and dietary choices.

Aims• Analyse the relationships between health, nutrition and food

• Develop and apply understanding and skills related to the functional properties of food.

• Investigate contemporary issues affecting food and consumer choice.

• Use research, management and technological skills to plan, make and evaluate food products to a range of dietary and lifestyle needs.

• Prepare food using safe and hygienic practices to meet specific needs.

Unit StructureUnit Structure

National 3 National 4 National 5 Higher

Food for Health Food for Health Food for Health Food for Health

Food Product Development

Food Product Development

Food Product Development

Food Product Development

Contemporary Food Issues

Contemporary Food Issues

Contemporary Food Issues

Contemporary Food Issues

Conditions of the AwardConditions of the Award

• Unit Assessment• Assessed on a pass/fail basis within Centres • Verified by SQA to ensure that assessment judgements are consistent and

meet national standardsCourse Assessment

• Assignment - 50 marks• Question Paper - 50 marks

Assessment Support Schedule 2013/14 Assessment Support Schedule 2013/14

Sept 13 CfE Update Letter

Oct 13 Unit Assessment Support (Package 1)

Feb 14 Unit Assessment Support (Package 2)

Mar 14 Coursework General Assessment Information

Apr 14 Unit Assessment Support (Package 3)

May 14 Update Mandatory Documents

Jun 14 Update Unit Assessment Support

Health and Food TechnologyUnit Assessment

at Higher

Health and Food TechnologyUnit Assessment

at Higher

Unit assessment - recapUnit assessment - recap• Flexible and open Assessment Standards and Evidence

Requirements in Units

• Greater range of techniques and methodologies for assessment – encouraged throughout all Assessment Support Packages

• Assessments can be designed to provide evidence across more than one outcome or Unit – combined assessments

• More opportunities to gather naturally occurring evidence – assessment as part of learning and teaching

Unit Assessment Support purpose Unit Assessment Support purpose

As at National 5, Assessment Support will be provided which you can use to:

•Assess your candidates

•Adapt for your own assessment programmes

•Help you develop your own assessments

Unit Assessment Support at HigherUnit Assessment Support at Higher – key features – key features

• Valid from August 2014

• Complements and supports learning and teaching

• Assess competence against Unit Outcomes and Assessment Standards

• Designed to encourage professional judgement

• Provide broad-based tasks – allows assessors to choose appropriate contexts and forms of evidence

• Show range of approaches to generating assessment evidence

• Give information on the type of evidence which could be gathered

Unit assessment support Unit assessment support packages at Higher - approachespackages at Higher - approaches

Package 1 • Unit by Unit approach – discrete assessment tasks

for each UnitPackage 2 • Portfolio approach – naturally occurring evidence Package 3 • Combined approach – groups Outcomes and

Assessment Standards from different Units

Assessment Support Package ExampleAssessment Support Package ExampleUnit by Unit approachAssessment is exemplified with:a Candidate Task, which will generate evidence for all Outcomes and Assessment Standardsconditions under which the assessment should take placeadvice on making assessment judgementsevidence required recording documentationappendix with details of the Candidate Taskreassessment information

Health and Food TechnologyHigher Course Assessment

Health and Food TechnologyHigher Course Assessment

Course Assessment at HigherCourse Assessment at Higher• Course Assessment at National 5, Higher and

Advanced Higher assesses Added Value

• Courses at Higher are graded A – D, as at present

• Controlled Assessment of setting, conducting and marking is the same as at National 5

• For Health and Food Technology, there are two components, a Question Paper and an Assignment

Higher – Higher – Question paper• 50 marks• 1 hour 30 minutes• all questions will be mandatory – no options• 4 questions:• Question 1 will have 20 marks• Questions 2, 3 and 4 will each have 10

marks • Questions will be themed

Higher – Higher – Assignment• 50 marks• set and marked by SQA• conducted under supervision in centres• 4 sections• Planning (22 marks)• The product (10 marks)• Product testing (8 marks)• Evaluation (10 marks)