PGCert Higher Education Assessment

A short award for people who already teach or train. You design a brief, the criteria, and a moderation note. It is not a teaching qualification and it does not award a fellowship. Three courses, 18 credits.

PGCert Higher Education Assessment is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 9 months, and the credit total is 18. Students move from Outcomes and criteria through Outcomes and criteria; The brief; Moderation, and finish on Moderation.

Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students design a short sequence for a named group of learners and the criteria that would mark it fairly. Reading is a curriculum extract, an assessment specification, and an evaluation summary. The artefact a marker expects is a plan with outcomes, a task, criteria, and a note on bias.

The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Write an outcome a marker can see Design a brief with a word limit and a rubric Moderate two scripts and record the change

Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass.

This course does not confer a teaching licence, QTS, or equivalent registration.

The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.

The credit total on this page is the sum of the courses in the curriculum. Assessment is the work named on each course.

Complete the online form, which saves from the first step, and upload your documents. Admissions emails you the decision.