SQA Centre Update

Computing Science update

We have updated the Unit assessment support packs for National 3, National 4 and National 5 Computing Science. This follows verification activities and feedback gathered from practitioners throughout 2013-14. The packs now include more detailed guidance on assessment activities, gathering candidate evidence, making assessment decisions and completing the candidate assessment record.

For the new Higher Computing Science Course, a bank of three coursework assessment tasks is now available on SQA’s secure site for session 2014-15. We have also renamed the Pseudocode document for Higher Computing Science; it is now titled the Reference Language document.

Accounting event

The Introduction of International Accounting Standards, which relates to the presentation of accounts, has introduced new accounting terminology. SQA is holding a one day training event on the new layouts for National 5 and Higher, on 30 September. Find out more information

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SQA CENTRE NEWS

SQA.org.uk improvements

Following customer feedback, we are pleased to announce that a number of improvements to SQA.org.uk will be going live this weekend.

Home page/navigation

The new home page has clear user selection panels as the main focus and a more streamlined layout for key content and information. Some customers thought the old home page design was too busy and that it was not clear how to get to pages specifically aimed at them.

Qualifications

We have merged Subjects and Qualifications into a single area so that it’s more straightforward to access all qualification information from one place.

Page layout and content

We have changed the site layout on all pages from a three-column to a two-column layout and increased the font size used. These changes improve clarity and will help you get to what you are looking for more quickly.

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