As a National Support Partner of the Diploma we can help you deliver effective internal assessment in your school, college or consortium.

Our accredited training and support programme will enable the Lead and Domain Assessor roles to be carried out effectively and will develop and improve internal assessment-related knowledge, skills and capability ensuring your place of learning  delivers consistent and fit for purpose assessments that meets your learner's needs. The training will cover the requirements for internal assessment, effective assessment setting, developing an assessment policy for your consortia as well as implementing standardisation and moderation procedures that will meet the requirements of the Diploma.

Why take part in the training?

The roles of both Lead and Domain Assessors are critically important to the effective delivery of the Diploma within your consortium. The CIEA is able to provide you with the appropriate level of training and support to enable you to develop your knowledge and understanding of good assessment practice.

A Lead Assessor - is responsible for quality assuring the process of assessment across different lines of learning within a consortium to ensure a consistent approach to the application of internal assessment.

A Domain Assessor - has overall responsibility for all the internal assessment work that takes place within a particular line of learning.

Unlike most training providers our help and support does not end when you complete the course. As THE professional membership organisation for assessment professionals we are in a unique position to be able to offer continued help and support via our dedicated Diploma Good Practice section of our website, containing internal assessment-specific:

• Information
• Advice
• Good practice case studies

Who should take part in the training?

We have listed below the types of roles that relate to both the Lead and Domain assessor training so that you can make a judgement as to which training course would best be suited to your needs:

Lead Assessor
Assessment Coordinator,
Curriculum Manager, Assessment
Manager, Local Authority 14-19
Coordinator and Manager,
Consortium Management Team,
Members of the Senior Leadership team in the school or college.

Domain Assessor
Teacher, Lecturer, Subject Leader,
Heads of Department, Diploma
Line of Learning Lead.

Who will deliver the training?

The CIEA has a network of trainers who are experts in the field of educational assessment. All of the trainers are qualified Chartered Educational Assessors with experience of working in a wide variety of educational assessment  environments, including the diploma.

What recognition will I gain following successful completion of the training?

Following the completion of the training and a successful submission of a portfolio, you will be accredited as a Fellow of the CIEA if you complete the Lead Assessor portfolio, or a Member of the CIEA if you complete the Domain Assessor portfolio through the . You will  be able to use the Lead and Domain assessor portfolio as evidence to achieve Fellow or Member status of the CIEA.  

For more detailed information about the training that the CIEA offer please click here.

To download our Diploma training and support guide click here.

When is the next round of training?

To find out when the next round of Diploma training is taking place, please email diplomaassessment@ciea.org.uk

What's next?

If you are interested in taking part in the training then please email us at diplomaassessment@ciea.org.uk stating your name, consortia, local authority, school/college name, type of training required, and number of delegates who wish to attend the training.
How much will the training cost?

CIEA members (corporate and individual) automatically receive a third off the total cost of training.

Individual members also receive a free membership upgrade to Fellow or Full Member status.

To discuss your requirements and find out more about the costs for Domain and Lead Assessor training please email diplomaassessment@ciea.org.uk

Feedback from delegates who have completed the CIEA Diploma assessment training:

"A very good training session. I learnt a lot and feel confident in assessing the work using the spec. that I've got. Very useful examples. A good training day".

"Well presented. Reassuring in some respects - as teacher of MLD including many ASD pupils simplicity is vital for our students. Making questions designed for mainstream /typical students simpler opens the up to access by our students".

"Very useful - more valuable than any training we've had to date. Wish we could have had this a year ago as we have already completed most assessments. Excellent delivery - very interesting and entertaining. Thank you".

"I wish we'd had this training when we were planning the delivery of the Diplomas in Sept. 2008. This was more useful than any other Diploma Training course to date! Most of the SSAT courses (QIA, LSIS etc.) focused on" "What is a Diploma?"

"Very enjoyable and informative. All material was useful and the leaders were very good".

"Loved the course - thank you - felt it was very informative and the tasks will help with getting around new specs".

"Excellent training - this would be really useful for any school staff that are involved in the Diploma in any way. Thank you".

"Useful day. Some key issues of assessment and quality assurance".

"Very enjoyable. I have more knowledge and understanding, Thank you".

"Very open and honest evaluations of the current situation, which helped us feel confident about dealing with the issues."

"Lots of useful information! I look forward to sharing it with the consortium."

"CIEA events are always enjoyable. I am looking forward to delivering Inset to help give confidence to the lead assessor and domain assessor."

To go to the support available from the QCDA go to the following link: QCDA Diploma support

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