Overview of assessing & eligibility

An overview of the EdTA assessor journey, how to express interest in undertaking the role, and eligibility criteria.

The typical assessor journey

The EdTA assessor milestones are:

In this sub-section of pages for assessors we provide all assessment downloadable files you will need, and assessor-specific event booking links and past event recordings. 

Showing interest

If you are new to the University or have recently heard about the EdTA, you may have some questions and queries about the scheme in terms of what it is and how it works. Broadly, the EdTA is a mentoring scheme which supports staff towards gaining fellowship from Advance HE, guided by their professional standards framework (PSF). Your role as an assessor is to read and assess fellowship claims, and to provide judgement and feedback on whether these claims meet the professional standards. 

Eligibility

To be eligible to be an assessor with us, you need to be a currently employed staff member with existing fellowship at Senior Fellow or Principal Fellow and planning to be here for a minimum of 2 years. We encourage assessors to have experience mentoring on our scheme, but it is not a requirement. 

We are always trying to grow our EdTA assessor community, if you are interested in being an assessor or would like to nominate an assessor, please reach out to the EdTA team, at IAD.cpdframework@ed.ac.uk.

To learn more about EdTA assessing, please browse our content and resources included on this subsection. 

If you’d like to know more about the EdTA from a participant’s or mentor’s experience, please take a look at our Prospective EdTA participants, Current EdTA participants pages, or EdTA mentors pages. 

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