Verification is one of a range of quality assurance measures used by SQA to confirm that assessment tasks and activities provide learners with fair and valid opportunities to meet the standards. It is the term used to describe the approaches to ensuring that centres' assessment decisions are valid and reliable and are in line with national standards.
SQA expects its centres to be responsible for the Internal Verification of their assessments. This means that centres should have an internal quality assurance system, with effective quality checks in place, to ensure that assessment decisions are consistent between staff assessing the same qualification.
External Verification is carried out by SQA to ensure that:
- national standards are being uniformly applied
- assessments are accurately and consistently applied across all centres and levels
- feedback is provided on teachers’ judgements to inform improvements in practices
Systems Verification ensures that centres have adequate internal quality assurance systems, and that these are sufficiently well documented.
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