Welcome to our January BTEC Tech Award newsletter. We hope you had a restful winter break and are getting your new year off to a good start. In this month’s edition, we're bringing you the latest updates, including important deadlines, new support materials, and resources for both teachers and exams officers.
We’d also like to welcome all our new schools that have recently joined us to deliver BTEC Tech Awards. If you’d like to explore our support for teachers and exams officers, you can jump straight to our support for new centres section of the newsletter to get started.
We’re highlighting key activities and support in this update, but we have a wealth of support articles available covering all aspects of the BTEC Tech Awards.
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If you have learners who’ve taken internal assessments submitted for moderation in December, be on the lookout for the initial (draft) moderator feedback reports. These reports will detail the moderator’s findings, and where necessary, give you the opportunity to amend marks in line with feedback. If you uploaded learner work for moderation by the deadline of 15 December, you can expect to receive the feedback report by 17 January. You will then have until 24 January to make any amendments to your marks if you wish to, though this is not compulsory.
Accessing your moderator feedback reports on Edexcel Online
After listening to your feedback, the moderator feedback reports you’ll receive following the moderation of PSAs completed in December/January will be available to download directly from Edexcel Online.
Read our guide to accessing your moderator feedback report
As soon as your initial moderator feedback report is ready to download, a notification email will be sent to your exams manager, exams officer and exams assistant and quality nominee to let them know. They’ll then be able to download this in Edexcel Online and forward to anyone who needs to review this. Your final moderator report will be published and accessible from Edexcel Online on results day as usual.
Improvements to your initial moderator feedback reports
We are enhancing your moderator feedback reports to make them clearer and more consistent, based on your feedback. From this December/January series, you’ll notice a more uniform structure used across all subjects, a glossary of terms to make reports easier to understand, and a guidance video that will help you put the feedback into practice. We hope you’ll find these improvements useful and look forward to hearing what you think.
Watch our guidance video on understanding your moderator feedback report
Amending marks following moderator feedback
Once you’ve received your draft moderator feedback reports, you will have until 24 January to amend marks in line with the feedback, if you wish to. Any learner marks can be amended based on feedback, not just those that were sampled by the moderator.
Follow our step-by-step guide to amending marks |
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| 7 January |
Final deadline for January external assessment entries (non-creative subjects) |
| 17 January |
Date by which centres will receive draft moderator reports for internal components uploaded by 15 December |
| 24 January |
Deadline for amending marks following moderator feedback on December internal assessments |
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We have published new exemplar standardisation materials (ESMs) for the internal components. We add new ESMs after every assessment series to give you additional fresh examples based on the most recent Pearson Set Assignments. Be sure to review them to support you in your marking.
You can download these from each subject’s course materials page, under teaching and learning materials.
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You can access Pearson-Set Assignments (PSAs) for the May/June assessments on each subject’s page, which you can select from the main BTEC Tech Award area.
Remember, the PSA for Art and Design released on 2 September and the PSA for Performing Arts released on 4 December are both for use within the May/June window. |
We have training courses running throughout September and October. Whether you’ve just started delivering the qualification, or you just need some more support or a refresher, we’ll have something for you.
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We host a monthly exams officer webinar, where we’ll always have BTEC Tech Awards on the agenda. Providing you with the latest news and updates, and the upcoming tasks and deadlines.
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Teachers
If you are a teacher who is new to delivering BTEC Tech Awards this academic year, we’ve rounded up all the support we have available to get you started. Remember, if there’s anything you need help with you can contact us through the Pearson support portal and we’ll be happy to help.
Your key resources are all accessible from the ‘Course Materials’ and ‘Training’ tabs at the top of your subject’s qualification page, which you can find from our BTEC Tech Award web pages. On the course materials tab under the ‘teaching and learning materials’ category, you’ll find Teacher Guides, Transition Guides, Exemplar Standardisation Materials and more. |
- Getting Started
- Marking and Moderation
- Preparing for External Assessment
Recordings of past training events as well as bitesize videos are available from the Training webpage if you can’t attend the live events. |
Exams officers
If you are an exams officer administrating the BTEC Tech Awards for the first time, head over to our exams officer guidance page. This is a handy reference page with key information, links to key documents and a step-by-step guide to registrations, entries, assessment, results and certification. |
Quality nominees
Explore our quality assurance page which includes key quality assurance guides, quick guides, bitesize videos and live ‘catch-ups’ schedule. |
Subject advisors
Experts in their fields, and many of them former teachers, our subject advisors are here to support you throughout the year and can help with all your subject-specific queries. You can contact our subject advisors by email, book a short meeting and sign up for subject advisor updates. Meet our subject advisors here. |
While we’ll be sending this directly to you every month, there’s a wealth of support available on our website. Bookmark our BTEC Tech Awards FAQ webpage, where we’ll keep you updated.
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