HNVQ Internal Verification Toolkit

Internal verification helps centres ensure assessments are valid, reliable, practicable and fair. It also helps assessors to apply uniform and consistent standards.

Documenting internal verification activities helps manage internal assessment and verification, and plan for improvement. It also shows SQA that an effective internal verification system is in place and helps to safeguard the quality of our qualifications.

Internal verification:

  • ensures assessors understand national standards and can apply them
  • facilitates collaboration between assessors and internal verifiers
  • enables fair, accurate and consistent assessment judgements
  • supports the credibility of internally assessed Units and Awards
  • identifies quality concerns
  • helps protect assessors against challenges to judgements
  • supports preparation for successful external verification

Stages

There are three stages and the toolkit lists the activities and provides templates for each stage.

Further guidance and resources