1. Purpose
RADD Training Limited (“RADD Training”) is committed to fair, consistent and inclusive assessment across all qualifications and courses delivered under awarding body requirements.
Fair assessment means designing and delivering assessment in a way that gives all learners appropriate opportunities to demonstrate achievement, while maintaining the integrity of the qualification and ensuring assessment decisions are valid, reliable and consistent.
This policy should be read alongside RADD Training policies for:
- Reasonable Adjustments / Special Considerations (access arrangements)
- Assessment Appeals
- Malpractice / Maladministration (where applicable)
- Use of AI Policy
2. Scope
This policy applies to:
- All awarding body qualifications and regulated assessments delivered by RADD Training
- All assessment methods used by RADD Training (knowledge and competence)
- All staff and contractors involved in assessment, internal quality assurance and assessment design
- All learners undertaking assessment with RADD Training
Where awarding body requirements differ from this policy, awarding body requirements take precedence.
3. Principles of fair assessment
RADD Training will ensure that assessments and assessment activities are:
- Valid (measure what they are intended to measure)
- Reliable (produce consistent outcomes when applied correctly)
- Fit for purpose (appropriate to the unit/qualification and learner context)
- Transparent (clear expectations, criteria and evidence requirements)
- Consistent (standardised practice across assessors and cohorts)
- Inclusive (recognise and respect equality, diversity and individual needs)
- Appropriately written (clear language at the correct level for the unit)
- Varied (use a range of assessment strategies where permitted)
4. Assessment methods
RADD Training promotes the use of a range of assessment methods (as permitted by the awarding body), which may include:
- Observation of performance in the workplace or simulated environment
- Professional discussion / questioning
- Written tasks / knowledge tests
- Products of work
- Witness testimony (where permitted)
- Case studies and reflective accounts
Assessment criteria must not be amended, reworded or omitted.
5. Access arrangements (reasonable adjustments / special considerations)
RADD Training has systems and procedures in place to support access arrangements, including reasonable adjustments, where these are permitted by the awarding body.
Any access arrangement must:
- meet the needs of the individual learner, and
- continue to allow a valid, reliable and consistent judgement against the published learning outcomes and assessment criteria.
Full details are set out in the relevant RADD Training policy.
6. Roles and responsibilities
6.1 Tutors / Assessors
Tutors/Assessors will:
- Complete induction that includes the principles of assessment and awarding body requirements
- Plan assessment strategies and timings to avoid unnecessary burden and to reduce risk of disadvantage to particular groups
- Use assessment methods that are appropriate to the unit/qualification and learner context
- Record outcomes of all assessment activities accurately and promptly
- Provide clear, constructive feedback mapped to learning outcomes and assessment criteria
- Maintain secure and accurate assessment records
- Follow RADD Training policies including Use of AI and any awarding body instructions
6.2 Writers of assessment materials (where RADD creates/controls assessment tasks)
Writers of assessment materials will:
- Produce assessment activities with due regard to equality, diversity and inclusion
- Ensure tasks allow evidence to be generated in diverse ways (where permitted)
- Use language appropriate to the level and requirements of the unit
- Ensure the assessment strategy generates evidence against all learning outcomes and assessment criteria
- Review assessment tasks at least annually and as part of course evaluation
6.3 Internal Quality Assurers / Internal Verifiers (IQA/IV)
Internal verifiers will:
- Verify the appropriateness of assessment strategies for units/qualifications
- Verify individual assessment tasks against the principles in Section 3 and awarding body requirements
- Sample assessment decisions to confirm they are valid, consistent and evidence-based
- Check assessor records are accurate, clear and up to date
- Confirm feedback to learners is clear, constructive, unambiguous and linked to criteria
- Provide written feedback to tutors/assessors
- Ensure quality improvement actions are recorded, monitored and implemented
6.4 Learners
Learners will:
- Be inducted into awarding body assessment methodology and understand criterion-referenced assessment
- Be made aware of the Centres Assessment Appeals Policy and how to access it
- Be made aware of any time constraints attached to the achievement of the qualification
- Submit evidence that meets the published criteria (criteria cannot be changed)
- Read and comply with the RADD Training Use of AI Policy
- Engage with feedback and act on agreed actions to progress
Feedback timescales:
- Learners will receive feedback from assessment activities within 2 weeks, unless the Centre is closed or the relevant assessor is on annual leave. In such cases, the 2-week timescale recommences from the first day the Centre reopens and/or the assessor returns.
Qualification achievement:
- Learners must achieve all required units to gain a full qualification.
- Where a full qualification is not achievable, unit certification may be available where permitted by the awarding body.
6.5 Awarding body moderators / external quality assurers
Awarding body moderators/external quality assurers will:
- Be given access to relevant documentation and assessment evidence to support the award of credit/qualifications, as requested and in line with awarding body requirements.
7. Appeals (assessment decisions)
The procedure for the appeal of assessment decisions is set out in the RADD Training Assessment Appeals Policy and is available via the RADD Training website.
8. Monitoring and review
RADD Training will monitor the effectiveness of this policy through:
- internal verification activity and standardisation
- learner feedback and course evaluation
- awarding body reports and actions
9. Document control
| Approved By: | Chrisy McLeod – Division Director |
| Version: | v2 |
| Issue date: | 23/02/2026 |
| Last Review: | 23/02/2026 |
| Review date: | 22/02/2027 |