5N0690: Collection of Work – Communication, Assignment, LC, Ireland

BRIEF 1

The internal assessor will devise guidelines for learners on gathering a collection of work that demonstrates evidence of the following communication skills:

• Writing skills.Evidence should include a range of relevant documents, including a structured report and a minimum of 3 other pieces.

A structured report.

• It may be based on any topic for example, based on the learner’s vocational area, or research done for another module
• It must include information gathered from a variety of sources.
• It should be well structured, detailed, balanced, use impersonal language
• Reference should be made to Health & Safety legislation
• It must contain relevant visual supports, i.e., drawings, charts, photographs etc.
• All resources must be acknowledged through references and bibliography
• It must be word processed, approximately 1200 words

          Other documents

• To include business documents such as letter, a CV, memorandum, notice of meeting, agenda, minutes (narrative/action) or other relevant workplace documents
• To include a piece of personal writing e.g. short story/ poem, letter of complaint/ thanks/ condolence/ congratulations, a review etc.
• The documents should be word processed, where appropriate
• Evidence of drafting, redrafting and editing should be attached to at least one of the finished pieces. One of these drafts must be handwritten.
• Communications Technology Essay to include:
  • An awareness of current and relevant issues:
  • Discussion of the uses of CT to include rationale for choice of technology used in different situations.
  • The advantages/ disadvantages of CT
  • The impact of CT on private and public life
  • Current developments in CT
  • Relevant legislation to include Health, Safety & Welfare Act and Communications related legislation
  • This essay must be word processed It must be approximately 800 words.

Critical Reading Skills to include:

• Evidence of reading skills based on identifying and extracting key points of information from one vocational and one literary text chosen by the assessor.
• A written summary of each text should identify and include the main ideas of the text, a summary of the text and reflect their understanding of the text.
• This summary should be 300 words approximately.

BRIEF 2

Technique:  Skills Demonstration

Weighting 50%

The skills demonstration will be evidenced by:

• Listening and Speaking- Oral presentation Skills (To include non- verbal and visual communication)
• Learners should make a presentation of 5-10 minutes in duration.
• The presentation should be on topic related to the learner’s vocational area.
• It should include appropriate visual supports.
• It should include a question and answer session at the end of the presentation.
• It should assess the learner’s ability to communicate to a group of people effectively.
• The presentation should be recorded on visual recorder.
• Listening and Speaking Skills (Interview Skills)
• Learners must participate in an assessment that demonstrates the learner’s ability to communicate in a one-to-one formal situation.
• This may be recorded on audio or visual recorder.
• This should be approximately 5-7 minutes in duration.
• Listening and Speaking Skills (Group Work) (To include non-verbal communications)

Learners must participate in a formal group setting which asses listening and speaking skills for example:

• Meeting
• Discussion,
• Debate etc.
• This should be recorded on visual recorder.
• This should be approximately 10-15 minutes in duration.

ICT Practical Skills Demonstration

• The internal assessor will devise a number of tasks which will demonstrate the learner’s competent use of a range of Communications Technology skills relevant to their vocational area, for example:
• Sending/ receiving email,
• Attaching documents
• Internet navigation and use
• Creating and sharing information through social media websites i.e. blogs, forums etc.
• Uploading/ Downloading information etc.
• Completion of these tasks should be supervised by the internal assessor.
• The evidence/ documents should be submitted at the end of the demonstration.
• This should be supervised class- based skills demonstration.