BTEC International Level 3 Health and Social Care

Unit 13: Unit 13 — assessment criteria

BTEC International Level 3 Unit 13 (Unit 13) — 60 Guided Learning Hours.

Internal / Optional60 GLH17 criteria4 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

7 criteria
A.P1Explain the role of the government agencies in making policy that affects a local health and social care setting.
B.P2Compare the transmission routes of micro-organisms involved in human diseases and relate them to specific infections.
B.P3Explain ways that organisations represent the needs of individuals with a specific need using health and social care.
C.P4Explain how the health and social care sector is affected by one piece of regulation.
C.P5Compare how different local health care or social care organisations implement regulations and policies.
C.P6Explain how policy affects individuals using health care or social care.
D.P6Outline how micro-organisms are used by two different commercial enterprises.

Merit

4 criteria
A.M1Assess ways local services and government agencies work together to make policy affecting a local health and social care setting.
B.M2Assess ways that organisations in the health and social care sector meet objectives set out by government agencies and represent the needs of individuals with a specific need.
C.M3Assess the impact of regulations and policy on workers and individuals in different local health care or social care settings.
D.M4Analyse the social benefits to humans of three micro-organisms.

Distinction

6 criteria
A.D1Justify the methods used to control two different micro-organisms.
AB.D1Evaluate how practice of a local health and social care setting is affected by government agency policy and other factors in meeting objectives and a specific need of a group of individuals.
BC.D2Evaluate the reasons for and consequences of the spread of diseases becoming more global.
C.D2Evaluate ways that regulations and codes of practice affect workers and individuals in different local health care or social care settings.
C.D3Evaluate whether policy making in health and social care has improved the health and wellbeing of individuals in different local health care or social care settings.
D.D3Evaluate the positive and negative effects of the interrelationship

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.

ExplainCompareOutlineAssessAnalyseJustifyEvaluate
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. Understand the concepts of microbiology relevant to health science
  • B. Examine the role of micro-organisms in human health and disease
  • C. Investigate the impact of diseases and their treatment in a global context
  • D. Investigate the health benefits of micro-organisms.

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