Centre Guide - Cache

Your Guide to Being a CACHE Centre
Contents
01 Welcome 01
02 Becoming a CACHE Centre
Online services 02
Personalised support 03
Subject Specialist support 03
Training days, information days and
bespoke activities 03
Qualifications development 03
Improving our services 03
From Approval to Centre Quality Audit 03
Registering learners 03
Assessors, internal moderators and
quality assurers 03
Requesting extra support and reasonable
adjustments for learners 03
Retaining copies of learners’ work 04
Administering external assessment 04
Learners' results 04
Queries 05
Certificates and Direct Certificate
Claims Status 05
Maintaining the quality and integrity of
your qualifications 05
Records for Centre Quality Audit 06-07
Identifying risk and extra support 08
Identified Malpractice and
Maladministration 08
04 Types of assessment
Multiple choice questions 10
Practical Assessments 10
Assignments 10
Portfolio of Evidence 10
External Assessment 10
UCAS Points 10
05 Preparation, Implementation of
Assessment, Moderation and
Quality Assurance
Planning for internally assessed assignments 11
Marking internally assessed assignments 11
Moderating internally assessed assignments 11
Flow Chart for NQF Internal Moderation 12-13
Assessing Portfolio Evidence 14
Flow Chart for Holistic Assessment
of QCF Portfolio Evidence 14-15
Internally Quality Assuring Portfolio Evidence 16
Flow Chart for Holistic Internally Quality
Assuring QCF Portfolio Evidence 16-17
06 Terms you will encounter
Credit transfer 18
Personal Learning Record (PLR) 18
Rules of Combination (RoC) 18
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) 18
Value statements 19
03 About the qualifications
Qualification Frameworks 09
National Qualifications Framework 09
Qualifications and Credit Framework 09