Good morning everyone

We are a small ESOL department reviewing the new QCF quals and trying to choose an awarding body/assessment method. We have used Cambridge and Trinity in the past and favour the end of year externally marked exam as ensuring good quality of teaching and learning, but we are under some pressure to move to an internally assessed model, in order to ensure the highest outcomes in terms of success data.

Would anyone have a perspective on this? I am aware that there have been threads relating to this topic in the past but am interested to know what your final decisions have been.

We are finding it difficult to make a decision without sight of all the sample papers.

Many thanks

Zoe Williams

ESOL Lecturer

New College Durham, Framwellgate Moor Campus, Durham DH1 5ES

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