Controlled Assessment

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Edexcel GCSE Health & Social Care Controlled Assessment Teacher Support Book 2012 Edexcel GCSE Health and Social Care Controlled Assessment Teacher Support Book Health and Social Care: Exploring Health, Social Care and Early Years Provision Health and Social Care: Promoting Health and Well-being Welcome to the GCSE Health and Social Care 2012 Controlled Assessment Teacher Support Book This CA Teacher Support Book has been designed to provide you with the answers to key questions that you may have during the teaching and assessment of Controlled Assessment Unit 5HS02: Exploring Health, Social Care and Early Years Provision and Unit 5HS03: Promoting Health and Well-being. The book is divided into three sections. It contains content which…show more content…
The tasks will be reviewed every year, in accordance with OFQUAL regulations. Any candidates wanting to retake the controlled assessment unit will need to use the one available for the session in which they are resubmitting, regardless of what task they did originally. (Topping up a single award to convert into a double award could involve resitting a new Unit 5HS02 task to improve the candidate’s potential final grade.) Task taking (medium level of control) – the controls for taking the task have been designed to ensure that the completed tasks are all the candidate’s own work. This means that candidates cannot carry out work at home and bring this into the classroom. Research work can be completed under limited supervision. Candidates are allowed to access information and resources as determined by the centre in accordance with OFQUAL requirements. A candidate’s final assignments must be produced individually under medium supervision. All written work, calculations and graphs must be carried out in a lesson, supervised by a teacher. The write-up will take place over several lessons, so candidate materials must be collected in at the end of the lesson and handed back at the beginning of the next lesson. Candidates can bring primary and secondary data into lessons to use in completing the tasks. Task marking (medium level of control) – tasks are marked by the…show more content…
“ “ “ Although there will be two sets of assessment materials available at any one time the candidate can only submit the work in the series for which that case study is valid. When can I offer the controlled assessment unit? Candidates may complete the Unit 5HS02 controlled assessment tasks at any stage during the course, but may only be submitted to Edexcel in the May of each year for external assessment. Unit 5HS03 controlled assessments can only be completed after the publication of the pre-released controlled assessment task in January. ” ” ” What happens with resits? If a candidate decides to resubmit a controlled assessment unit for assessment they will need to complete the appropriate assessment tasks set for that series/year. In practical terms they will need to work with the new assessment materials released for that unit. Please note that details of when the assessment task is valid for can be found on the front cover of the task. GCSE Health and Social Care Version 2012 Controlled Assessment Teacher Support Book

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