TechnologiesDerek Middleton, Qualification Development ManagerScottish Qualifications Authority

New National Qualifications• Support learning – assessment follows the curriculum

• Support aims, purposes and principles of Curriculum for Excellence

• Provide progression from Experiences and Outcomes and maximizes curriculum continuity between levels

• Build on existing strengths of reputation, standards, reliability and validity of Scottish qualifications

• Provide more flexibility and choice

Engagement and feedback• Local Authorities, Further and Higher Education

• Subject specialists, professional associations, industry

• Learner engagement

• CARG/QDT/SWGs

• CfE Liaison Team

• Have your say

Technologies: Overview

Provide progression

• Clear progression routes• Computing and Information Science• Design and Manufacture

• Hierarchical Units• Engineering Science

Assessment supporting learning

• Use of assignments to assess Added Value Units

• Use of assignments to assess application of skills in Course Assessments

• Question Papers focusing on Knowledge and Understanding

Flexibility and choice• Computing and Information Science: choice of

problem contexts

• Graphic Communication: flexibility in use of manual and computer-aided techniques

• Design and Manufacture: choice of design tasks

• Engineering Science: Contexts and Challenges Unit

Key messages

• Combining of Courses • Computing and Information Science• Design and Manufacture

• Methods of Assessment• Graphic Communication

• Details of course assessment

Workshop 1: New National Qualifications• Using the materials provided, please provide

feedback on:• Progression between levels• Balance and focus of skills, knowledge and

understanding• National 4 Added Value Assessment and National 5

Course Assessment• Opportunities to meet the Aims, purposes and

principles of Curriculum for Excellence