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    Please read these instructions before you start. You don't need a password to access the materials here.

    Please navigate through the sections on the left to access the instructions for each of the materials you have been asked to review and edit.

    Each section explains the purpose of the activity and identifies which documents you have to review or edit.


    Make sure you save all of the files to your computer as you complete them.

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  • 1) Reviewing and editing materials

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    If you have been invited to be a reviewer, you will be scrutinising the materials produced by another subject matter expert.

    Depending on your contract, you may need to review some, or all of the following materials:

    • The selected scripts
    • Exemplar candidate answers
    • Marking feedback
    • Marking guidance document - marking workshops only
    • Formative feedback paragraph - extension courses only
    • PERT summary - extension courses only

    It is your role to assess the suitability of these materials and to make any edits you deem are necessary.

    If you want to discuss any editorial changes you want to make with the original writer, please feel free to do so via the chat function in Base Camp.

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      Please make any changes you feel are necessary. The material will not be sent back to the original writer for further reviews or alterations. If you have any questions, please contact the colleague who contracted you.

  • 2) Reviewing script selection and marking feedback based on existing candidate scripts

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    Please complete the following tasks:

    • Review the selected scripts and ensure that those chosen are appropriate. In particular, please make sure any source material the candidates have had to refer to is available in the exam paper or inserts - some is removed for Copyright and we have no access to these materials.

    • Review the marking feedback. Please carefully read each selected script and the associated marking feedback.
    • Please edit any of the commentary as necessary to make the explanations clear and detailed.
    • Procedure change: We are now using the standardisation scripts for you to select from. Marks in the standardisation scripts cannot be changed so you will be unable to request for these to be reviewed. If for any reason we are unable to send you the standardisation scripts, and have to use a more general selection, we will let you know.
    • EXCEPTION: If you are dealing with script examples which schools submit using SFA, these are raw centre marks and you can alter them as necessary. For example, speaking tests, PE and Drama video submissions and GP projects.

    • 3) Reviewing exemplar candidate answers and marking feedback

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      Please complete the following tasks:

      • Review the example candidate answers and make any adjustments you feel might be necessary to best demonstrate the sort of learner responses we would be expecting.
      • Review the marking feedback. Please carefully read each exemplar script and the associated marking feedback. Make any changes you feel are necessary to the commentary.

      • 4) Reviewing the marking guidance document

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        Marking workshops only

        This document acts as a 'hints and tips' sheet and is designed to help participants to understand key elements of the mark scheme and its application before they begin the marking exercise.

        Please ensure that the guidance covers all of the key elements for each component and is written in clear, plain English. Make any edits you deem necessary.


        • 5) Reviewing the formative feedback paragraph

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          Extension courses only

          Participants will be discussing and developing formative assessment feedback for one of the scripts they have marked during Lesson 3. They are expected to be explicit about how the feedback would help the candidate to improve and what they might have to do in their classrooms to ensure that the feedback is effective.

          Please check that the paragraph provided suggests which areas of the script that participants may want to focus on and brief reasons why. It should not give too much information about the feedback which should be provided as the task involves participants doing this themselves.

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            The example paragraph sent to the writers is provided below.

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            Example formative assessment paragraph

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        • 6) Reviewing the PERT summary

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          Extension courses only

          To help participants to identify key elements of the assessment that they may need to consider they will be provided with a summary of the key themes identified in the PERTs.

          Please review the PERT summary and check that it is relevant for the syllabus outlined in your brief. If necessary make any changes required.

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            For your reference
            The example PERT summaries sent to the writers is provided below.

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            Example PERT summaries

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        • 7) Submission of materials from the review process

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          When you have completed all of the commission, please save all of the documents with a clear indication that these are the final versions into one folder and then zip this.

          Before you zip the documents:

          • Have you checked the scripts selected are relevant and appropriate?
          • Have you checked that any source material used by candidates in the exam has not been removed for copyright reasons?
          • Have you made any necessary changes to the marking feedback (and if provided, the example candidate answers)?

          If you answered yes to all the questions above, you can then upload this zip file in one action to Basecamp.

          If you do not zip the contents, every file has to be uploaded and then downloaded individually which takes a large amount of time.

          You can prompt the system to send an email to the colleague who set up the Base Camp project to let them know you have uploaded the files.

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            How to zip a file
            1) Go to your file manager and make sure all of the documents you have created are in one folder.
            2) Right-click on that folder and navigate down to the [send to] option.
            3) From the drop-down menu that appears select [Compressed (zipped) folder].
            4) A zipped folder will now be created which you can upload to Basecamp.

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