Hi all,
For those of you who submitted your assignments by the submission date, your results for unit 4.5 are now available in or cohort’s password protected area.
Although you have may have met the course learning outcomes for this unit, after having reviewed your assignments, I would like to make the general points in preparation of your portfolios.
So for the objective evidence types (the types we asked you to submit for this assignment):
Please ensure you describe what you are evidencing - a simple short descriptive sentence will not suffice for your EPA portfolio.
I recommend around 2 – 3 sides for objective types of evidence – if you have included a picture then please annotate and maybe further describe the annotation beneath the image. We want to see descriptions and understanding in your portfolio work.
As a general rule of thumb, If you have included an image that takes up half the page then 1 side will probably not be long enough (once you have factored in heading and signature block).
Always, always refer back to the learning outcome you are trying to evidence against. So for example I have chosen a random set of learning outcomes for unit 4.6 (Supervision of Mortuary Functions)
5 Understand why the mortuary should be managed
5.1 State why data relevant to the work of the mortuary needs to be managed.
5.2 Outline requirements for resource management within the mortuary.
5.3 Outline requirements for record keeping in the mortuary.
5.4 State why the standard of mortuary services needs to be maintained or improved.
So if you are wanting to index a particular piece of evidence against, say the red learning outcomes above, then look at your evidence piece and incorporate some elements that the assessor can clearly link to these learning outcomes. So I would put the following terms / sentences put into my work (but use your own words and examples):
… this ensures that the ….. standards within our mortuary are …….
….. records ensures efficient management of ……..
Otherwise the assessor may be asking, even though this is a great piece of evidence, what has this got to do with that learning outcome. Remember! The external assessor will be looking at the learning outcomes on the CAS form and then against the evidence piece (s) you have indexed.
Hope this gives helps,
Kind regards,
Darren