Selecting unit writers

We have had a good response to the call for volunteers to write units. So, we are almost in a position to begin matching volunteers to units.

We will use the following criteria to match people to units:

1. the person has attended unit writing training*
2. the person has previous experience of unit writing and/or vetting
3. the person is a member of the QDT (core or extended)
4. the person is has played a lead or active role in developments to date
5. the person is recognised as a subject expert
6. the person has relevant teaching experience*
7. the person has relevant curriculum development experience (such as involvement in previous qualification developments)
8. the person has relevant experience of working with SQA (such as external verification)
9. an appropriate overall balance of age/experience/gender/position/location is achieved

(* mandatory)

We will use this criteria to choose one person when we have several volunteers for a single unit. The criteria is not in order of importance.

You do not have to meet all of the criteria. Some are essential (such as number 1 and number 6) but most are not. Criterion 9 is not designed to exclude inexperienced people. Quite the opposite, in fact. It is there to encourage inexperienced people (such as part time lecturers) or minorities (such as women, who are under-represented in these developments) to volunteer since it permits us to choose someone in spite of their relative inexperience in order to achieve a good balance for the writing team as a whole.

Selections will be made in the near future. It's not too late to volunteer.