Qualifications Update:
Higher Health and Food Technology
Qualifications Update:
Higher Health and Food Technology
Alistair McKenzie
Qualifications Development Manager
Developing qualifications - drivers
• Progression
• More open and flexible requirements
• Assessment which supports learning
• Refreshed and relevant contexts for learning
• Personalisation and choice
• Robust and credible
Key points
Higher Health and Food Technology
• Skills based Units provide flexibility and choice
• Allows learners to study the relationships between health,
nutrition and the functional properties of food and
consumer issues.
• Builds skills, knowledge and understanding progressively
up the levels
• Combines the best aspects of current Higher Course
• Added Value is assessed by an assignment with the
focus on: Breadth, Challenge and Application.
Offers opportunities for personalisation and choice
Purpose and aims of the Course
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Purpose
Develop and apply the knowledge and skills of research, analysis and
evaluation in order to make informed food and dietary choices.
Aims
Analyse the relationships between health, nutrition and food
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Develop and apply understanding and skills related to the
functional properties of food.
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Investigate contemporary issues affecting food and consumer choice.
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Use research, management and technological skills to plan, make and evaluate
food products to a range of dietary and lifestyle needs.
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Prepare food using safe and hygienic practices to meet specific needs.
Unit Structure
National 3
National 4
National 5
Higher
Food for Health
Food for Health
Food for Health
Food for Health
Food Product
Development
Food Product
Development
Food Product
Development
Food Product
Development
Contemporary
Food Issues
Contemporary Food
Issues
Contemporary
Food Issues
Contemporary
Food Issues
Conditions of the Award
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Unit Assessment
Assessed on a pass/fail basis within Centres
Verified by SQA to ensure that assessment judgements are consistent and
meet national standards
Course Assessment
Assignment - 50 marks
Question Paper - 50 marks
Assessment Support Schedule 2013/14
Sept 13
CfE Update Letter
Oct 13
Unit Assessment Support (Package 1)
Feb 14
Unit Assessment Support (Package 2)
Mar 14
Coursework General Assessment Information
Apr 14
Unit Assessment Support (Package 3)
May 14
Update Mandatory Documents
Jun 14
Update Unit Assessment Support
Health and Food Technology
Unit Assessment
at Higher
Unit assessment - recap
• Flexible and open Assessment Standards and Evidence
Requirements in Units
• Greater range of techniques and methodologies for assessment –
encouraged throughout all Assessment Support Packages
• Assessments can be designed to provide evidence across more
than one outcome or Unit – combined assessments
• More opportunities to gather naturally occurring evidence –
assessment as part of learning and teaching
Unit Assessment Support purpose
As at National 5, Assessment Support will be provided which
you can use to:
• Assess your candidates
• Adapt for your own assessment programmes
• Help you develop your own assessments
Unit Assessment Support at Higher
– key features
• Valid from August 2014
• Complements and supports learning and teaching
• Assess competence against Unit Outcomes and Assessment Standards
• Designed to encourage professional judgement
• Provide broad-based tasks – allows assessors to choose appropriate
contexts and forms of evidence
• Show range of approaches to generating assessment evidence
• Give information on the type of evidence which could be gathered
Unit assessment support
packages at Higher - approaches
Package 1
• Unit by Unit approach – discrete assessment tasks
for each Unit
Package 2
• Portfolio approach – naturally occurring evidence
Package 3
• Combined approach – groups Outcomes and
Assessment Standards from different Units
Assessment Support Package Example
Unit by Unit approach
Assessment is exemplified with:
a Candidate Task, which will generate evidence for
all Outcomes and Assessment Standards
conditions under which the assessment should take
place
advice on making assessment judgements
evidence required
 recording documentation
appendix with details of the Candidate Task
reassessment information
Health and Food Technology
Higher Course Assessment
Course Assessment at Higher
• Course Assessment at National 5, Higher and
Advanced Higher assesses Added Value
• Courses at Higher are graded A – D, as at present
• Controlled Assessment of setting, conducting
and marking is the same as at National 5
• For Health and Food Technology, there are two
components, a Question Paper and an
Assignment
Higher – Question paper
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50 marks
1 hour 30 minutes
all questions will be mandatory – no options
4 questions:
• Question 1 will have 20 marks
• Questions 2, 3 and 4 will each have 10
marks
• Questions will be themed
Higher – Assignment
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50 marks
set and marked by SQA
conducted under supervision in centres
4 sections
• Planning (22 marks)
• The product (10 marks)
• Product testing (8 marks)
• Evaluation (10 marks)