Internal Verification

A Recognised Centre must regularly sample and evaluate its assessment practices and decisions, and act on the findings to ensure consistency and fairness.

This involves two key processes – verification and standardisation – and is carried out by one or more internal verifiers.

The role of the internal verifier (IV) is to ensure that:

• Assessment is appropriate, consistent, fair and transparent and does not unintentionally discriminate against any learner.
• Tutors/assessors receive ongoing advice and support, for example in designing assessment activities.
• Learners clearly understand assessment requirements and are given opportunities to achieve against the assessment criteria.
• Learners’ work is presented in a manner that enables effective verification to take place.
• Evidence of learner achievement is clearly mapped to the assessment criteria.
• Recommendations for the Award of Credit (RAC) are valid, reliable and consistent.  (Internal Verifiers can also achieve Approved Internal Verifier Status (AIVS).)

For further guidance on internal verification including the components that need to be included within a centre's internal verification system, please refer to the NOCN Centre Handbook

Approved Internal Verifier Status (AIVS)

Achieving AIVS allows an Internal Verifier within a recognised centre to sign off the Recommendation for Award of Credit (RAC) form issued by OCN Eastern Region in house, without the need for external verification.

Training

To identify your ideal training route to achieve Approved Internal Verifier Status (AIVS), please complete this short survey.

OCN Eastern Region provides a number of training courses for internal verifiers and tutor assessors.