The following information is from the
SQA CCLD 305 unit which helps to show the range and scale of evidence that learners can collect and provide from their workplace practice.
Check or ask your tutor/assessor if in doubt as to which evidence would be the most appropriate to include for a given task/unit/assessment.
Evidence selection 1
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Questioning/Professional Discussion: Questions may be oral or written. In each case the question and your answer will need to be recorded. Professional discussion should be in the form of a structured review of your practice with the outcomes captured by means of audiotape or a written summary. These are particularly useful to provide evidence that you know and understand principles which support practice, policies, procedures and legislation, and that you can critically evaluate their application e.g. relevant legislation covering equality/inclusion and children's rights and how these are implemented in your setting, the practical application of legislation covering equality of access.
Evidence selection 2
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Products: These are non-confidential records made, or contributed to, by you,
e.g.policies and procedures, inclusion plans, data and evaluations on the effectiveness of your provision in implementing inclusive practice,
plans to provide information about equality of access to children and families who have found services hard to access.
Evidence selection 3
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Confidential Records: These may be used as evidence but must not be placed in your portfolio, they must remain in their usual location and be referred to in the assessor records in your portfolio e.g. confidential material about individual children, plans and records of participation for disabled children and children with special educational needs.
Evidence selection 4
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Original Certificates and other evidence of prior experience and learning: Where you have relevant prior experience it must match the requirements of the standards. Certificates of training, awards and records of attendance must be authentic, current and valid. Your assessor will also want to check the content of such training so that this can be matched to the standards and check that you have retained and can apply learning to practice, e.g. disability discrimination training, training for special educational needs and codes of practice, child protection training.
Evidence selection 5
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Case Studies, projects, assignments and reflective accounts of your work: These methods are most appropriately used to cover any outstanding areas in the knowledge requirement of your award. Assignments covering the safeguarding and protection of children or inclusive practice may provide useful evidence for this unit.
Evidence selection 6
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Witness Testimony: Colleagues, allied professionals, children, young people, families and carers may be able to provide testimony of your performance. Your assessor will help you to identify the appropriate use of witnesses.