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BTEC International Level 2 Health and Social Care

Unit 1: Human Lifespan Development — assessment criteria

BTEC International Level 2 Unit 1 (Human Lifespan Development) — 30 Guided Learning Hours.

Mandatory (Pearson-set)30 GLH8 criteria3 learning aims
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Assessment criteria

Reproduced verbatim from the Pearson specification — the same grid the assignment brief carries. A unit grade is the highest band where all criteria in that band (and every band below it) are met.

Pass

3 criteria
A.P1Describe key aspects of physical, intellectual, emotional and social development at different life stages.
B.P2Describe a range of factors that may have an impact on human growth and development.
C.P3Explain the influence of life events on growth and development in given scenarios.

Merit

3 criteria
A.M1Explain how key aspects of physical, intellectual, emotional and social development change over the life stages.
B.M2Explain how the impact of a range of factors on human growth and development changes over the life stages.
C.M3Explain how changes caused by life events can be managed in given scenarios.

Distinction

2 criteria
AB.D1Evaluate factors that have affected the growth and development of people in given scenarios.
C.D2Evaluate the response of individuals to life events and the support they received in given scenarios.

Command verbs in this unit

The verb decides the depth expected — that is what separates Pass from Merit and Distinction work on the same learning aim.

DescribeExplainEvaluate
Pearson's ladder runs Identify → Describe → Explain → Compare / Analyse → Evaluate / Justify / Assess. A Merit or Distinction criterion on the same aim always implies the Pass beneath it: an “evaluate” answer that never first “explains” fails, however polished it reads. Hover a verb for what it demands.

Learning aims

  • A. Explore human growth and development across the life stages
  • B. Investigate factors that affect human growth and development across the
  • C. Understand how life events can influence life stages

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