How you’d get it

How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Pearson Education Ltd has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and Pearson Education Ltd awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Pearson Education Ltd.

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01What it is

Our Edexcel NVQ and competence-based qualifications are available in a comprehensive range of work sectors.

These are the units Pearson Education Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Pearson Education Ltd. It does the teaching and the mapping. Pearson Education Ltd sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

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02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Assess occupational competence in the work environment Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll develop competence in planning, conducting, and documenting occupational competence assessments in work environments. The unit covers assessment planning, evidence gathering, decision making, and adherence to legal and good practice requirements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Plan the assessment of occupational competence in the work environment
  • Make assessment decisions about occupational competence
  • Provide required information following the assessment of occupational competence
  • Maintain legal and good practice requirements when assessing occupational competence
Assess vocational skills, knowledge and understanding Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll gain skills to prepare and conduct assessments of vocational skills, knowledge, and understanding. The unit covers aligning assessments with standards, selecting methods, gathering evidence, and providing constructive feedback.

What you'll be able to do

  • Prepare assessments of vocational skills, knowledge and understanding in accordance with relevant standards and guidelines.
  • Carry out assessments of vocational skills, knowledge and understanding using appropriate methods and techniques.
  • Provide required information following the assessment of vocational skills, knowledge and understanding, adhering to confidentiality and data protection requirements.
  • Maintain legal and good practice requirements when assessing vocational skills, knowledge and understanding, ensuring fairness and validity.
Understanding the principles and practices of assessment Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
This unit offers learners a comprehensive understanding of assessment principles and practices. You'll examine assessment methods, planning, involvement of learners, decision making, and quality assurance to ensure valid and reliable assessments.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles and requirements of assessment
  • Understand different types of assessment method
  • Understand how to plan assessment
  • Understand how to involve learners and others in assessment
  • Understand how to make assessment decisions
  • Understand quality assurance of the assessment process
  • Understand how to manage information relating to assessment
  • Understand the legal and good practice requirements in relation to assessment
03The standards

The national standards these units are built against

What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

  • Assist in Conducting Vulnerability Assessments Under Supervision

    Standard
04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Pearson Education Ltd rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Assess occupational competence in the work environmentAssess vocational skills, knowledge and understandingUnderstanding the principles and practices of assessment

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Coach The Coach · your practice partner Illustration
The Coach Rather than work through “Assess occupational competence in the work environment” in the abstract, bring me the piece of it you are dealing with this week.
You I have got the write-up due Friday and I have not started it.
The Coach Then that is the lesson. Tell me what it has to say, and we will get the shape of it down before we worry about the words.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Bring the real thing Apply

    “Assess occupational competence in the work environment” is taught against the work in front of you rather than a worked example. You bring what you are doing this week and it becomes the practice.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Assess occupational competence in the work environment, one of this qualification's own units.

Assess occupational competence in the work environment Level 3

Applied to your own work

Learners will develop competence in planning, conducting, and documenting occupational competence assessments in work environments. The unit covers assessment planning, evidence gathering, decision making, and adherence to legal and good practice requirements.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.

Your Plan Illustration

Built for Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement

3 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.

  1. Assess occupational competence in the work environment
  2. Assess vocational skills, knowledge and understanding
  3. Understanding the principles and practices of assessment
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

Learned on your own work, taught one-to-one.

Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your free first module is Future Fluency, so you can see how the teaching works before you pay for anything.

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The title, level, credits, guided learning hours and unit learning outcomes on this page are taken from the Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Where this data comes from.