Candidates generate evidence which will be assessed against the learning outcomes and assessment criteria specified in each unit provided on the qualification pages. 

• For Cambridge Technicals (2012), we supply one model assignment per subject and level. 
• For Cambridge Technicals (2016), we supply model assignments for every mandatory internally assessed unit. 

The assignments can be used or adapted to suit your learners. If you prefer to create your own assignment, they can be used in place of the our supplied assignments. 

For units without a model assignment, guidance is available in the centre handbooks on designing your centre assignment. 

We also have an optional assignment checking service.

Candidates’ evidence is then assessed by the centre’s assessor(s) against the learning outcomes and assessment criteria. An assessor may be a candidate’s tutor/teacher or another person accountable to the centre for the assessment of evidence. 

Centres should ensure candidates have regular planned contact with their tutor/teacher and/or assessor to enable cumulative assessment, feedback and review of progress. 

Accurate and effective records of assessment decisions must be kept by the centre.

Assessors must be confident that the work they assess is the candidate’s own. (We assume the teacher is the assessor for the moderated units.) This does not mean that a candidate must be supervised throughout the completion of all work but the assessor must exercise sufficient supervision, or introduce sufficient checks, to be in a position to judge the authenticity of the candidate’s work.

Each candidate must sign an authentication form before submitting their work to their assessor. By signing the form, they declare the work is their own and any assistance given and/or sources used have been acknowledged.

It is the centre’s responsibility to make sure every candidate does this.

Assessors must also sign the authentication form for each candidate to declare the work submitted is the candidate’s own This is also a requirement for private candidates.

Centres must retain authentication forms until all reviews of results, malpractice investigations and appeals have been resolved.

When a claim is made, centres are required to declare you hold signed declarations for all candidates who are submitted on the claim. 

You must keep accurate and effective records of assessment decisions. Unit recording sheets (URS) are available from Teach Cambridge for our 2016 suite and the qualification page for our 2012 suite. These should be completed to record and justify your assessment decisions. You must fill in a URS for each unit a candidate completes and make this available with the work during visiting moderation.

Once a candidate’s work has been assessed, it must be internally standardised. 

It is essential appropriate mechanisms are in place to carry out internal standardisation of assessment across all assessors. 

The centre handbook for each qualification explains the requirements for assessment and moderation, and the roles and responsibilities of the staff involved. 

You will need to submit records of internal standardisation to the visiting moderator when they visit. 

Assessment records are required for internal standardisation and external moderation. They must be securely retained by the centre for a minimum of three years following candidate achievement of the qualification (i.e. from the date of certification).