Leadership Coaching and Mentoring (Level 7)

These qualifications can be offered to Learners from age 19. CMI does not specify entry requirements for these qualifications, but Centres are required to ensure that Learners admitted to the programme have sufficient capability at the right level to undertake the learning and assessment.

CMI Centre must ensure Learners are recruited with integrity onto appropriate qualifications that will:

● meet their needs
● enable and facilitate learning and achievement
● enable progression

In order to achieve this, the CMI Centre will need to:

● Provide relevant programme information, guidance and advice, to enable informed Learner choice
● Publish entry and selection criteria
● Demonstrate that Learners are recruited with integrity
● Carry out comprehensive Learner induction that:

● addresses programme and organisational requirements
● explains Learner facilities
● identifies Learners’ development needs
● develops an Individual Learning Plan

The qualification is offered in the medium of the English Language.

The criteria of the assessment of a CMI qualification will be to meet the assessment criteria detailed within each individual unit.

The primary interface with the Learner is the Assessor whose job it is to assess the evidence presented by the Learner. The Assessor should provide an audit trail showing how the judgement of the Learner’s overall achievement has been arrived at.

The CMI Centre’s assessment plan, to be agreed with the Quality Manager, should include a matrix for each qualification showing how each unit is to be assessed against the relevant criteria and which specific piece or pieces of work will be identified in relation to each unit. It should also show how assessment is scheduled into the delivery programme.

In designing the individual tasks and activities, CMI Centres must ensure that:

● The selected assessment task/activity is relevant to the content of the unit
● There are clear instructions given to Learners as to what is expected
● Learners are clearly told how long the assessment will take (if it is a timed activity), and what

reference or other material they may use (if any) to complete it

● The language used in the assessment is free from any bias
● The language and technical terms used are at the appropriate level for the Learners

In addition to the specific assessment criteria in each unit, the Learner’s work must be:

● Accurate, current and authentic
● Relevant in depth and breadth

and must also show the Learner’s:
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● Clear grasp of concepts
● Ability to link theory to practice, and
● Ability to communicate clearly in the relevant discipline at the expected level for the qualification

There is no grading system for CMI qualifications, and external moderation of Learners’ work only confirms that the required criteria for achievement have been met. CMI Centres are, however, free to apply their own grade scales, but it must be understood that these are completely separate from the CMI qualification. It is important to ensure consistency of assessment, and that demands made on Learners are comparable within and between CMI Centres. A number of assessment methods can be used.

CMI Centres are encouraged to use a range of methods to ensure that all the learning outcomes and assessment criteria are met, and to enhance Learners’ development.

Assessment methods can include:

● Case studies
● Role play
● Time constrained tests
● Examinations
● Assignments
● Reports
● Integrated work activities
● Viva voce
● Projects
● Presentations

In some instances, as well as written work, use can be made of technology. It is important, however, to ensure sufficient traceability for assessment and verification.
For CMI requirements regarding Assessors and Internal Verifiers of CMI qualifications please refer to the CMI Centre Handbook for more information.