Do you know how to comply with data protection regulations and understand the Joint Council of Qualifications rules and regulations?
This full online Exam Officer Training course will help to cover all aspects of the role of a first-time exam officer from the key activities of the exam cycle, through to key dates, access arrangements, conducting exams to results, and post-results services.
During this course, you will gain an insight into the tools and methods that are used to ensure that all students have access to the same information about the exam, that they are provided with equal access to facilities and equipment during an exam, and have equal access to materials. If you want to become an exam officer, it's helpful to prepare for the role by understanding its responsibilities.
Exam Officer Training
Exam officers are important because they help ensure that the exam process is fair. They make sure that everyone who takes the exam has an equal opportunity to succeed and that everyone who passes does so because of their own efforts rather than because of favouritism or cheating. If you want to become an exam officer, it's helpful to prepare for the role by understanding their responsibilities.
What are the challenges of Exam Officer?
Exam Officer manages examination days in accordance with awarding body regulations, including preparing for each exam day, starting an examination, dealing with emergencies, irregularities, and malpractice, ending the examination, collecting the examination scripts, and packing and dispatching examination scripts.
Exam Officer helps to ensure that the exam process is fair. They make sure that everyone who takes the exam has an equal opportunity to succeed and that everyone who passes does so because of their own efforts rather than because of favouritism or cheating.
Exam Officer provides guidance and support for all students taking the same exam so that everyone has the resources they need to succeed.
During the course you will learn:
How to..
.. make sure that everyone who takes the exam has an equal opportunity to succeed and that everyone who passes does so because of their own efforts rather than because of favouritism or cheating.
How to..
.. manage the examination days in accordance with awarding body regulations, including preparing for each exam day, starting an examination, dealing with emergencies, irregularities, and malpractice, ending the examination, collecting the examination scripts, and packing and dispatching examination scripts.
How to..
.. provide guidance and support for all students taking the same exam so that everyone has the resources they need to succeed.
Course author:
Sam Garner
Sam Garner is an ex SENCo who had pastoral and mental health responsibility, and she set up a therapeutic unit for students on the verge of exclusion.
She then worked with children excluded from education and children in secure foster care whilst qualifying as a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist.
Then, she became a self-employed trainer and speaker, and set up her own company providing CBT programmes for use in schools.
Sam worked with a whole range of education settings from Youth Offender Institutes to some of the most prestigious independent schools here, and abroad and published a book on Mental Health in Education.
Wendy Bell
Wendy Bell has extensive experience in the examination’s environment through her role as Examinations Officer in several secondary schools. She was a Regional Support Manager at AQA for 8 years providing support to Examinations Officers across South and Central England. Her role at AQA included the coordination, planning and delivery of the national programme of training for newly appointed Examinations Officers. She was a regular presenter at QCDA events for Examinations Officers. Prior to joining AQA, she worked for a number of years as the Examinations Officer at John Bentley School and previously at George Ward School. Recently she has been providing support and training to new Examinations Officers in a secondary school in Bristol and in a special school. She has also worked at a secondary school in Reading providing maternity cover for the Examinations Officer.
How to ensure that the exams are free of outside influence?
An exam officer ensures that the exams are safe from outside influence by keeping the exam room locked and allowing only students with permission to take the exam to enter. They also ensure that no one sees pages of the exam ahead of time and they make sure that students don't have access to phones or other electronic devices during testing.
The exam officer also ensures that students have not cheated by speaking with their teachers and reviewing class records to see if any students have been absent from class or have consistently received low grades.
What will you gain by taking part in the course?
New, current threads
During the lectures of this course, you will gain in-depth knowledge which will help you in your role as an examination officer. This course has been structured in line with the key activities of the exam cycle, ranging from key dates, access arrangements, and conducting exams to results and post-results services.
New skills
Develop skills to provide a variety of practical tools to assist with exam day management in accordance with awarding body regulations, including preparing for each exam day, starting an examination, dealing with emergencies, irregularities, and malpractice, ending the examination, collecting the examination scripts and packing and dispatching examination scripts.
Practice
The course covers a range of areas related to the role of an examination officer. The course will familiarize you with the key activities of the exam cycle, from key dates, access arrangements, and conducting exams to results and post-results services to provide guidance and support for all students taking the same exam so that everyone has the resources they need to succeed.
Availability
You will have access to all materials in a convenient form online around the clock, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, so you can learn where, how and when you want by using downloadable resources such as notes, videos, slides, factsheets, assessments and highlighted key points in each course section which are helping you to keep on track, as well as improve your results.
Certification
Once you have finished all of the course assessments and activities and completed the course you will receive a personal document confirming participation in the course.
You will be able to download your certificate of completion from 'my panel' on the UniqSkills platform and share your new skills online with potential employers, and your professional network.
Syllabus:
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Module 1: |
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Planning and preparation |
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Support for new exam officers |
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Paula's journey |
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Your role as exams officer |
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The exam cycle and the acadmic year |
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What lays ahead – preparing |
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Moving forward |
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Finding your feet as a new exams officer: roles and responsibilities |
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Finding your feet: developing a support mechanism |
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Questions to ask |
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Module 2: |
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Entries |
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Understanding the new JCQ inspection regime |
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Preparing for the JCQ readiness inspection – hints and tips |
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Understanding the terminology |
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Preparing for exam entries - considerations about the GCSE and A level entry date |
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Preparaing for exam entries - vocation and general qualifications |
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Working effectively with heads of department |
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Managing your exam entry fees and budget |
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Planning for summer |
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Preparing for summer |
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Invigilator training |
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Invigilation: Maximising the use of your resources |
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Invigilation: performance management |
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Invigilation: Good practice |
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Invigilation team - recruitment and training |
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Malpractice - students and staff |
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Malpractice procedures |
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Avoiding malpractice |
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Invigilation: best practice hints and tips |
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Exam Days |
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Understanding the Joint Council of Qualifications inspection (JCQ) |
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Inspection and vocational qualifications |
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Dealing with the unexpected |
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Staff wellbeing |
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Special consideration for vocational qualifications |
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Honorary certificates |
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Module 5: |
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Results |
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Introducing Wendy Bell |
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Concluding the exams season |
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Special considerations |
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Results |
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Restricted results day |
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Results day |
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Post-results services |
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Appeals |
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Working with senior leadership and Heads of Departments |
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JCQ regulations |
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Reviewing the year and planning ahead |
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Access arrangements |
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What are access arrangements? |
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Roles and responsibilities |
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Access arrangements available |
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Making applications |
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Logistics |
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JCQ update 2020-2021 |
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Module 7: |
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Summer 2021 |
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Where are we now? |
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What does this mean for exams? |
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Keeping up to date |
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Module 8: |
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Exams in 2021-2022 |
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Autumn 2021 |
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Academic year 2021-2022 |
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Summer 2022 |
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Autumn 2021 – Regulations and procedures |
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Exams in 2021-2022 |
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Updates for 2022/2023 |
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New regulations and guidance |
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General and Vocational qualifications (from Sept 2022) |
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Key Dates 2022/2023 |
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