RFT: Research services for updating QQI's standards-based assessment infrastructure for FET and HE in Ireland
QQI has issued a Request for Tenders (RFT) for the provision of research services for updating QQI’s standards-based assessment infrastructure for FET and HE in Ireland.
In summary, the services comprise: The establishment of a validated evidence base for QQI to use when updating its standards-based assessment infrastructure for further education and training and higher education in Ireland.
QQI wishes to discover stakeholders’ views on issues that might be addressed in that regard including what is working well and what is not. The focus is on the quality assurance of assessment including its interpretations and uses and not on specific techniques for assessment. It is also seeking to better understand the national context for standards-based assessment including how awarding bodies in Ireland satisfy themselves of the effectiveness of their standards-based assessment-related policies considering that assessment has both summative and formative purposes.
Finally, QQI is interested in a comparison of practices of a selection of awarding bodies, providers, quality assurance agencies, and regulators in other countries to the quality assurance of standards-based assessment including its interpretations and uses with those in Ireland.
The deadline for submissions to this RFT is 12:00pm, 30 September 2026.
